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Onward toward a horizontal sustainable post-scarcity society

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Because I haven’t had a chance to create any Radical content for this self-proclaimed aesthetic zine-blog (Yet. I’m working on it, I swear 😭), I thought I’d share what I’m reading right now to hold you over in the meantime. And that is the collected archives of Vietnm-era Asian American publication Gidra, available through the Densho Digital Repository. There’s some fascinating stuff that connects the struggle at home with a Third Worldist ideology, documenting imperialism in Vietnam and beyond (including the United States occupation of Okinawa in the years just before my family emigrated) and emphasizing the ties between the Asian American movement and Black, Latinx, and Indigenous struggles.

One issue in particular that I really recommend to get a feel for it is that from April 1973, which focuses on the Wounded Knee incident while also containing an article on community mental health, a great short story about Hawaii, and instructions for making your own pants.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297/

(Source photo is members of the Gidra staff photographed by Mike Murase)

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know your enemy

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I woke up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep, so have this lovely no-effort graphic courtesy of my insomnia.

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Welcome to my blog. I am a queer socialist future librarian from Detroit (pronouns she/her) who for some reason thinks she can write. My goal is to post original content here, probably of varying quality, about libraries and social issues and how the two relate.