The Institute for Anarchist Studies

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.

You Say You Want A Revolution?

by James Mumm

There is a centuries-long conversation on how best to achieve transformational change, taken up here in a dialogue between authors with insight and ideas for today’s political revolutionaries. Almost 150 years ago, the Farmers Alliance organized two million people in the United States by rallying … Read more

So You Got Teargassed? Herbal Self-Care After Exposure to Chemical Weapons

by Missy Rohs

If 2020 brought anything to my hometown of Portland, Oregon, it was the opportunity to be exposed to chemical weapons. Protesters, residents both housed and unhoused, bystanders, and workers throughout the city have been caught off guard by law enforcement’s prolific deployment of tear gas, … Read more

Dispatch from Portland’s Protests

by Sarah Mirk

Sarah Mirk is a comics journalist, author, and teacher. She works as an editor at The Nib and as a digital producer for Reveal. Her most recent book is Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison, available here. This is her documentation of the … Read more

A women overcome with emotion raises a clenched fist in solidarity with protestors while a women next to her applauds.

Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism after the George Floyd Uprisings

By Justin A. Lang

“Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.” — George Jackson, Blood in My Eye “A politics of abolition could never finally be … Read more

Support IAS Grants, Creators, and Writers! Donate to the IAS

Can you support the IAS in 2022? Giving Tuesday kicks off our end of year fundraising, and your solidarity helps anarchist creators and writers grow! Make a donation, and you’ll support grants for media makers, podcasters, and artists. Share our work, and you’ll support a … Read more

Mutual Aid Top 5s

What Kept Us Going This Year?

What are your top five things that have brought you comfort and/or joy during the past year? It can be anything: foods, movies, people, animals, thoughts, books, records, yoga positions, a particular hike, a new pen,  an old friend, whatever! Sam Smith Perspectives copy … Read more

Hydropower: A Review by Maia Ramnath

Undrowned, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (AK Press, 2020) and The Deep, by Rivers Solomon (Gallery/Saga Press, 2019) It begins with breath. That is, it begins with the planetary cycle of respiration connecting forest, ocean, air, and every creature. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Undrowned: Black Feminist … Read more

Interview with Shane Burley, Editor of No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis

Paul Messersmith-Glavin: Talk about what was going on in the world four or five years ago and what motivated you to put this collection together. I think I first came up with the idea in 2018 when I was at a bar with Kim Kelly … Read more

Interview with a Comrade from Iran

This interview was conducted on October 16th, 2022 and was slightly edited for clarity. Paul Messersmith-Glavin: Tell us about yourself: where you’re from, and your relations with family and friends in Iran. Comrade: I was born in Tehran. And I still have a lot of … Read more