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
Organizing Disruption: Fiction that Calls Us to Action
Review: Kung Li Sun, Begin the World Over (AK Press, 2022) & Robert Evans, After the Revolution (AK Press, 2022) Javier Sethness Castro, author of “From ‘Trotsky in Tijuana’ to ‘Chernobyl’: Caution & Reason” said, “[t]he promise of historical and speculative fiction is the reconstruction of the past … Read more
Silence in Perpetual Noise
Prison creates a different picture in the minds of those who have been there and those who send people there. We are indoctrinated to believe the prison system was created to keep our friends and neighbors safe. That prisons exist to help rehabilitate those criminals … Read more
Power Within
“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
Fundraising Anarchy
“Put in very blunt terms, they had taken power – not by simply changing the names of existing oppressive institutions but by literally destroying those old institutions and creating radically new ones… Social revolutionaries, far from removing the problem of power from their field of … Read more
The Power of Solidarity and Mutual Aid: Decolonizing Puerto Rico
In memoriam Matilde Rodríguez Pérez (1934-2020) Qe los cuentos de la abuela de “en aqeyos tiempos de ante” son los tiempos de aqí alante disfrasaos con ropa nueba. –Joserramón Melendes1 Marcelino and the Never-ending Work Shift In 1918, tobacco represented the second most important … Read more
Building Online Power
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, likes to claim that his company’s goal is to bring all the world’s people closer together through networking. That’s a truly astounding fiction, as Facebook – and effectively all of the firms dominating the internet today – are motivated … Read more
The World is Dying, Darling
The world is dying, darling. Humanity as we know it has existed for nearly three hundred thousand years. In that time, only the last 150 years of capitalism has managed to destroy the planet. Clearly there must be a way out of this mess and … Read more
Perspectives’ “Power” Introduction: What Happens When the Power Goes Out
What has happened? In some ways, the answer is simple because what’s happened is the natural progression of a sick society that has forsaken collective stability and health (of all kinds) in favor of power and profit. In other ways, the answer is impossible because … Read more
In the new Power issue the Perspectives collective collaborates with Kai Lumumba Barrow who provides cover art and images from Gallery of the Streets. Gallery of the Streets is a network of autonomous artists, activists, and scholars committed to abolitionist movement building. Led by queer … Read more
