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carla joy bergman (she/they) you'll find me dwelling in the impossible... always anti-empire & pro autonomy 📚 joyful militancy; Trust Kids! etc. 🐦‍⬛ CAW: https://www.cawshinythings.com new pod: @thestartrekpod.bsky.social other works: joyfulcarla.com

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · Jan 30

🐦‍⬛ CAW is a worker-run anarchist journal of art, culture & all the shiny things we can find! 💫

❤️‍🔥 THANKS to everyone who supported us! we are excited to share more shiny things with y'all -- we'll be fully launching in the coming weeks! follow: @caw-shinythings.bsky.social

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CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

www.cawshinythings.com

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 6h

LOVE this!!!

@thedugoutpod.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

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ANARCHISM ON FILM w/ The Dugout | a black anarchist podcast

If this list were a class, it would attract the film bros who think Battle of Algiers peaked in the first act. The art kids who only paint P1Gs in flames. The goth slipping zines into lockers, selling...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11h

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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The Dugout - A Black Anarchist Podcast @thedugoutpod.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity with the AIF The same commitment that led to International Brigades in the 1930s moves through today’s struggles in Rojava and Myanmar, where communities are building freedom through mutual aid, self-organization, and collective defense.
Donate via Venmo cashapp or PayPal AIFMYANMAR

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 11h

and NO PHILOSOPHER KINGS!

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 1d

tysm! <3

disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!!! means a lot. we just did a talk about Militant Joy today and we focused mostly on autonomy :) so we added more cards and a little bit more writing to the guidebook!

disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 1d

these analog-joy cards will be ready around the 8-year-anniversary pub date of Joyful Militancy! ❤️‍🔥

Militant Joy Cards coming later in the FALL!!!

image of a box cover with a teasel on it. text says: Militant Joy Cards. bergman & Montgomery. and in a black circle text says: An 88-card deck & guidebook to support collective transformation and autonomy

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 1d

true! luckily i was at home , alone!

disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 2d

beautifully said!!! love it.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1763, due in part to Pontiac's resistance, the King of Britain issued the Royal Proclamation placing certain limits on westward colonial expansion in North America. This enraged proto-Americans and was one of the causes of the American Revolution (freedom to colonize more quickly).

Royal Proclamation of 1763 - Wikipedia

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 2d

snot crying through yoga.

yeah that's my day.

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 2d

dither, a trifle by Shuli Branson

what if we
or if we

www.cawshinythings.com/dither/

dither

a trifle

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

We are not going to convert them, if at all it will be much further in the process of abolition, but we can and must celebrate and increase their demoralization. Not rehabilitation or a change of heart, instead act with the confidence they are too upset and disoriented to fight for their man

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3d

Vicky does a lot of great mutual aid work. I'm chipping in $50, who will match me?

Screenshot of a $50 payment to Vicky on venmo.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash App: $VickySurge1312
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CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

Cawshinythings.com

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 4d

THIS IS SO GOOD! TBT, Agony Letter with Shuli, who invited the beautiful @deanspade.bsky.social to help respond to a letter from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process....

CW: Letter includes brief mention of suicidal ideation.

www.cawshinythings.com/the-breakup-...

The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open

For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has cause...

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 5d

the journey of departure begins early.

a worksheet. text from worksheet says: My Favorite thing to do at school is.... and in printing in the space with blank lines it says: "leaving"

and then there's a drawing of a car with a person in it driving away.

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 6d

the opposite of despair is not hope (or even action in the activist sense of the word) but connection.

bcz when we truly feel like we belong and are part of something, that is what has the potential to cure despair... then the rest follows............

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AK Press @akpress.org · 7d

Did you know that AK Press has audiobooks? You can buy and download them directly from our website, or you can find them on whatever platform you normally use (unless that's Spotify, sorry not sorry). Check out our audiobook releases here: www.akpress.org/audiobooks.h...

Six square audiobook covers (A Continuous Struggle, Dismantling the Master's Clock, We Will Not Cancel Us, Fables and Spells, Inversion, and Joyful Militancy) are presented against a black background. Above them are a white pair of headphones and white block text reading "Audiobooks Available Now!"

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 6d

TODAY! 🎶
on #BandcampFriday artists get all the funds, so today's a good day to head on over to bandcamp and support your friends/ and or artists you love!

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 6d

When war and genocide goes on for literal years, it can be easy to forget the lives that people lived before this horror started. Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social has been trying to imagine rebuilding her life as an architect.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 8d

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 8d

Listen to Vicky talk with friends about her fabulous new book + more! And she also drops a hint about shiny caw merch coming soon!!! ✨

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 9d

With my book in pre-order, I've started talking about the IP regime, Disney, fascism, and how the company helped build the current moment. There's a conversation with the incredible @ellaguro.bsky.social in Tank Magazine and an appearance on It Could Happen Here pod!

Talking to My Friends

Hello my precious murder, As you may or may not know, my book, The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World has entered pre-order! You can order it through my Bookshop store here or anywhere else pre-orders are sold, although going to your local bookshop

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 10d

oh yeah i did a song kinda about this with @timeraps.bsky.social

thisistime.bandcamp.com/track/joy-in...

Joy Interrupted (feat. carla joy / prod. Time), by Time

from the album Depressed Joy

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 10d

these days, it's anxiety running through them all, providing the beats and breaks. 🕺

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