Of course, as I note in the intro to this new curated zine, it is “a sampler of some of the modest ways that anarchistic people from varied traditions” go about “defending the sacred” through “rebellious spiritualities.” The 18 examples — each penned and contributed by a different person, and interwoven in this 20-page offering — are not nearly as grand as the neighborly solidaristic uprising in LA (see @jailsupportla to lend support from afar) or seaworthy solidarity of the @gazafreedomflotilla.
Yet as I say in the intro, “my hope is that this humble zine inspires you to imaginatively blur the line between ritual and resistance, until the death machine sputters and stalls, and all that then moves freely is life. For it is us, side by side, that can make all sacred against the profane of this world. Because our love knows no borders.”
Indeed, our power, as this zine — and the streets and sea — assert, lies in our “faith” that we have millennia of wisdom, “beyond the imposed time-space of colonialism and capitalism, states and fascism,” in how to give meaning to the messy beauty of life in unquantifiable, uncontainable, and otherworldly ways. “Authoritarian regimes, also over millennia, have well understood this power. If they break people’s connection to ritual, to spirituality, they sever people’s connection to life itself.“
Let there be “no spiritual surrender,” to borrow words from @kleebenally, of blessed memory.
I’m grateful to the zine’s 17 contributors, @landonsheely for cover art, @_hey_casandra_ for the PDFs, and @stormbringer_press (also a contributor) for the photos.
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(Photos feature the zine’s cover [outside by a tree and some green plants], which boosts a stylized drawing of a three-headed person with plants “growing” out of their legs and a flower with a circle A coming out of one the heads, with broken chains between their legs)
