Michelle Alexander: Something More is Required of Us Now. What?
bySomething more is required of us now. What? Michelle Alexander, July 9, 2016 I have struggled to find words to express what I thought…
Critical Voices
Critical Voices is Agency’s platform for amplifying thoughtful commentary on current events that is originally published elsewhere. Not all of these articles are written by anarchists or take an explicitly anarchist point of view. What they have in common is that they call attention to issues of direct concern to anarchists, and do so from a perspective we broadly agree with. We publish them here because they we believe they contribute to the radical and holistic examination of power relations, the state, and capital that’s so important to us as anarchists.
Tariq Khan: Claim Your Own – The Orlando Shooter Was a Product of US Hypermasculinity
byClaim Your Own: The Orlando Shooter Was a Product of US Hypermasculinity Tariq Khan, wwwayward, June 13, 2016 Like so many others, I’ve been…
Katie Baker: Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker
byHere Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker Katie Baker, BuzzFeed, June 3, 2016 One night in January 2015,…
Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear & Shanley Kane: When Movements Backfire – Violence Against Women and Online Harassment
byWhen Movements Backfire: Violence Against Women and Online Harassment Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear & Shanley Kane, Model View Culture, May 27th, 2016 The anti-online…
Laurie Penny: Let’s not abolish sex work. Let’s abolish all work
byLet’s not abolish sex work. Let’s abolish all work Laurie Penny, NewStatesman, May 26, 2016 To describe sex work as “a job like any…
Dave Zirzin: ‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’ – The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali
by‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The Radical Reverberations of Muhammad Ali Dave Zirzin, The Nation, June 4, 2016 Ali was shaped by his…
Kristian Williams: Anarchism’s Mid-Century Turn
byAnarchism’s Mid-Century Turn Kristian Williams, Toward Freedom, May 3, 2016 Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, By Andrew Cornell,…
Barucha Peller: Self-Reproduction and the Oaxaca Commune
bySelf-Reproduction and the Oaxaca Commune Barucha Peller, Roar Magazine, May 2016 In 2006 a popular mass uprising swept the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico,…
Cara Jennings: Response to Rick Scott #StopRickScott
byJennings Responds to Rick Scott #StopRickScott May 4, 2016, 2 Min A short video I made about Governor Scott and his most recent antics….
Dilar Dirik: Challenging Privilege – On Solidarity and Self-reflection
byChallenging Privilege: On Solidarity and Self-reflection Dilar Dirik, Roar Magazine, May 4, 2016 Solidarity is not a one-way charity undertaking by privileged activists, but…