divinefaed @faeriedalelio@computerfairi.es

This is a nudge to send me your stories of “Everyday Antifascism” as submissions for my next curated zine of that same name. I’m seeking 75- to 250-word anecdotes of, as the subtitle notes, “Ways That Solidarity Keeps Us Safer.”

The deadline is this Friday, June 27, but it’s flexible through the weekend. Email me (cbmilstein at yahoo) your experiences, small or large, imaginative or gutsy, friendly or feisty; I want varied, messy-beautiful examples of the ways folks are currently fighting fascism by amping up forms of side-by-side (anarchistic) solidarity.

Artists: I’m also seeking 1 piece of B&W art for the cover!

As encouragement, here’s an excerpt from a piece I’ll be including in the zine:

“My family lives on a small side street in South Brooklyn. Five years ago, with a vision of mutual aid and an intergenerational community of care, I began knocking on doors to initiate summer block parties. I printed hundreds of flyers, went to every house and rang every doorbell, and ended up bringing people of all ages out to a neighborhood BBQ and potluck.

“The second year, I raised funds to purchase our first collectivized piece of equipment: a giant bouncy castle. …

“Now, in our fifth year, folks have begun to reach out directly to each other to share vulnerable, intimate requests for aid, such as immigration assistance or domestic violence support. I believe the fascist state has an insatiable desire for surveillance, and any purported assistance comes with the cost of identity verification and the constant potential of incarceration. We’ve localized many forms of care, and are able to use our relational resources to avoid the state entirely while respecting each other’s need for privacy and anonymity. Every time we solve our community’s challenges and whisper strategies for avoiding the state in person is, in my view, an antifascist win. Whether it is mediation, a place to sleep to cool down from a heated exchange with a partner, or immigration court escorts, we joyfully keep each other safer.”
—Carson

(photo: “collective defense” sticker boosting a chain-breaking alligator, Athens, March 2025)

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FOGHORN MAG

A semiannual print journal of anarchist dwelling. A rebel home&garden. A fiery breath of life, animating the beautiful idea of anarchism in our everyday domestic lives.

For the squatters, off-grid freaks, land defenders, woods dwellers, tramps, communal weirdos, and all those living out of bounds, beyond the grasp of the landlords, the county, the state.

We want your lovelorn and analytical reflections on the rural grind; practical construction and system how-to’s for non-normative living; photographs; interviews; musings; narratives; more.

Share the tears you cry over what you want and what could be, a life worth tending amongst the weeds and rubble. We hope you enjoy, and invite you to contribute to our first issue.

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Submission deadline is May 1, 2025.

Send us your essays, photographs, diatribes, diagrams, journal entries, interviews, columns, personal ads, ideas:

foghornmag@riseup.net
mastadon: foghornmag@kolektiva.social