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Anarchist Agency & IAS: Ideas in Revolt! Grants for Radical Writers, Artists, and Creators

The Institute for Anarchist Studies is grateful to be partnering with Anarchist Agency – An Anarchist PR Project (Agency) for our current 2022-23 grants program!

For a quarter of a century, the IAS has funded creative work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. This year, the IAS has joined forces with Agency to boost grant funding, specifically for multimedia-focused projects such as podcast, video production, and livestreams. Agency promotes contemporary anarchist perspectives through commentary, media relations, and educational campaigns.  Learn more about Agency, and the radical work they do, here.

We have a limited number of $500 – $2,000 grants available and would like to encourage anarchist creators with proposals for communicating anarchist ideas to apply.

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"ON PSALMS AND BONE," by Holly Hardin (Gallery of the Streets)

Power Within

by Cindy Crabb

“We are in such an unprecedented moment of global uprisings that fall against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is against the backdrop of institutionalized and historical racism and racialized oppression in this country and across the world. In the midst of that, we … Read more

Grants for Radical Videographers

Grants for Radical Videographers | Call for proposals | Summer 2022 For a quarter of a century, the Institute for Anarchist Studies has funded creative intellectual work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. This grant cycle is dedicated to … Read more

An Homage to David Graeber and to the Transformative Power of the Imagination

by James Anderson

Graeber’s ideas took concrete form in the Occupy Wall Street movement he helped get off the ground. Graeber also equipped us with the intellectual fuel needed to think beyond what prevails at present. He outlined frameworks for informing and catalyzing emergent exercises in opening up the horizon of possibility to actualize the collective potential of our imagination. The onus is upon us to use his gift going forward.

Mutual Aid Dispatch

by anonymous

I try to put the brakes on my self-righteousness. She’s trapped in this dystopian hell-hole too. There is so much need and so little support. I don’t know her story. Everyone is trapped. But I am angry. I want to rip that “Fight Fascism” sticker off her car. What does she think fighting fascism is?

In Defense of Autonomy: Seattle’s Organized Protest Zone Advanced the Movement for Black Lives

by Michael Reagan

What is unthinkable, or was at the beginning of the month, is the power of the Black Lives Matter movement in the streets. The emergence of the autonomous zone is a pinnacle of that power, a significant victory. It demonstrates the ability of popular power to win the impossible from structures of white supremacy – the state and the propertied interests they represent. That victory, and the subsequent diminution of state violence, is a major step forward for community self-control and autonomy. It shows that ending anti-Black violence is the first and most basic step to honoring Black life.

Anarchist Studies Reviews Guerrillas of Desire

by Robin Jervis

Guerrillas of Desire begins with a self-confessed provocation: the left misunderstands resistance. The implications of this claim, which forms the central thesis of the work, have huge significance for those with an interest in both Marxist or anarchist approaches to resistance, and the book goes a long way towards building bridges between these two approaches, highlighting the contribution made to the understanding of class conflict by autonomist Marxists.