I have finally published the piece I’ve been working on since mid-January! Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime is a political analysis of the current and historical conditions that shape border regime as well as resistance to it. Its focus is the ways that immigration enforcement has targeted racially marginalized women and children, and how those women and children are, and have always been, on every insurrectionary front.
New to Zines
Songbird, insurrectionary:
continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime
(March 2026)
New to Essays
Songbird, insurrectionary: continuity and escalation on the fronts of border regime (March, 28 2026)
New to the Library
Books
Eubanks, Virginia- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Gaventa, John- Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley
Kafer, Alison- Feminist, Queer, Crip
Articles
Frank, Arthur W.- Can We Research Suffering?
Graeber, David- Dead zones of the imagination: on violence, bureaucracy, and interpretive labor
Personal Update
I have finally published Songbird, insurrectionary and I am pretty proud of the work. More importantly, I learned so much in process with it. Behind every historical reference, no matter how passing, are days of research and careful study. There are many things I researched to prepare for the piece that make no explicit appearance in the essay at all, such as the week I spent refreshing and deepening my understanding of the path of radicalization towards genocide taken by German Nazis, the escalations that expanded their genocidal project from its beginnings in Kristallnacht to its culmination in Auschwitz. I am an avid reader before I am a writer, and a fast one at that. The more I develop my skills as a writer, and especially the more I embark upon pieces as ambitious as this one, the more deeply I appreciate how much labor goes into the work I have all my life consumed with rapidity. Behind just one sentence might lay days or even weeks of labor, and not only of the person who eventually sets the words down. On that note, I’d like to take a moment to explicitly recognize the labor of my partner, and to thank them profoundly for it once again. It is to them I bring my drafts, who I read my rough work to, and who helps me edit it to its final draft. Their labor, attention to detail, perspective, and intellect are also represented in my published work and I endlessly appreciate them for sharing it with me. I truly hope you all find the final piece interesting and generative.
I hoped to have an update on my disability support by the time of this update, and I do! While still meager means compared to many, the monthly disability support (SSDI) I will be getting is more than I expected, and certainly enough to facilitate my desire and goal to return to living in Portland, Oregon! This is so huge for me! The last few years I have been entirely dependent on my partner’s financial support and the very limited funds I have been able to get from writing. I am so hopeful this, plus getting back to the city I love (that also has significantly better healthcare infrastructure compared to where I have been living,) will expand my autonomy and reduce the constant financial stress I’ve been under. Having my livelihood even a little more secured outside of the writing hustle will probably do wonders for the quality of the work I share with you all. It may, I really hope, even give me the breathing room to finally do some real work on a book. Only time will tell! I hope to be back to Portland sometime in the late summer. It might be a bit longer, though, until folks there start seeing me around in the anarchist milieu. I still have a torn labrum in my hip and hip dysplasia that requires a very specialized surgeon to repair that I have not been able to access in Missouri. So once I’m there I’m going to be trying to get into surgery as quick as I can. I really want to be able to walk again, if possible. Being so limited in mobility and managing this yet-untreated injury has been really hard. Maybe, if all my plans come out alright, Portland folks will see me around on crutches in the fall 🙂
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