we live in hell, but at least i brought a fun soda to work today
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assistant professor of "economics" at a liberal arts college. phd economics umass-amherst. @solidarityresearch.bsky.social @workinquirywork.bsky.social π¦ posts are mine, not my employerβs. http://anastasiacwilson.com/
we live in hell, but at least i brought a fun soda to work today
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic ViolenceβThe Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken DownβEmotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. π΄
this week i decided that bad revisions/drafts submitted are better than no revisions/drafts submitted in order to get back into writing and learning to write well (someday)
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
Grocery workers can join the conversation here: bit.ly/groceryinquiry
βDocumenting what we already know is broken, finding out it's broken everywhere, and using that information to build real power,β Janet from @NSLU_PDX shared.
βWhen management says they can't afford better wages or they can't fix staffing, we'll have the receipts showing exactly how they're running these stores into the ground. That's how we stop fighting their fights on their terms and start fighting ours on ours.β
The video recording of 'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care' is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF...
#Anticapitalism #PirateCare #Resistance #CollectiveAction @plutopress.bsky.social
line is recovering
stay tuned to see if line will go back up
line down
The OxREP's double issue on βThe Economics of Careβ has been published! Read all articles online here:
academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/...
if you're a grocery worker, you should take a look at our workers' inquiry project on grocery work and fill out the survey!
Refuse work. Revolt against capitalism. Read Harry Cleaver. In that order. Repeat. "Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism, The Writings of @harrycleaver.bsky.social" edited by Robert Ovetz and @americanwork47.bsky.social out on @commonnotions.bsky.social in September!
ARE YOU A GROCERY WORKER?
What do grocery workers think? What do we want?
Participate in our workers' inquiry by sharing your experiences, organize with other grocery workers to share too, and join in the conversation!
@NSLU_PDX
Young people, as always, are showing up for the most urgent political strugglesβand a lot of adults need to learn from them. I wrote about the stakes of intergenerational solidarity against ICE.
inthesetimes.com/article/in-t...
something i love about myself is how my teeth are spaced exactly the size of poppy seed π¬
The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...
each time i teach a course, it feels like i cut more and more material out (especially for upper level courses). i think this isn't because students aren't keeping up, but instead me getting out of grad school mode (read as much as possible!) and getting better at teaching undergrads.
(1/11) If you live in NY, youβve probably started seeing a new warning: βTHIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.β This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and itβs the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
7β8pm GMT, Tuesday 3 March 2026, online
Event supported by MDN & co-hosted with other collectives
Register here: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Book Review Symposium link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
We've already been kicked off of IG. You can follow us here at the other place and check out our website too!
We are looking to understand workers power in the grocery sector in the US in order to further organizing and circulate struggles! Joins us!
@workinquirywork.bsky.social and @bbiunion.bsky.social have launched a new #WorkersInquiry with the help of our comrades Janet of New Seasons Labor Union-@ueunion.org Local 1010 and Maeg of @traderjoesunited.bsky.social.
found out i got tenure this weekend while i was at the montreal biodome. weird to share good news during hard times, but im looking forward to more scheming with comrades, and i really do love teaching.
Printscreen of the video recording's cover page with the title of the presentation on a yellow background, alongside HM's logo
Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20th Feb 2026! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m...
From our archive - Arianna Introna
"On Crip Compositionisms: Recognising Disability in Our Midst"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPhy...
#Marxism #Disability #Anticapitalism
New #workersinquiry launching soonβClass Composition in the Grocery Sector!
earnest posting that i love teaching so much