August Update (Patreon)

Hello everyone! We used to do these really cool monthly updates where a different collective member came on to talk about what we're working on at Strangers for the month, and we're really excited to start doing them again, especially cause we've got a lot of really exciting things coming up. This is Inmn writing the first one. A lot of y'all might be familiar with me from Live Like the World is Dying or the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast. I also do most of our shop fulfillment and a lot of other fun administrative work for the collective. This month I'm working on a longstanding project, a new game set in the world of a comic we're publishing called Curse of the Mall King by Forrest Storrs. This one has been in the works for a while. The game version of the comic is a mini-rpg that sets the players against the ferocity and despair of a giant mall and the enigmatic Mall King. Play as the last punks standing who are trying to stop their punk house from getting bulldozed to expand the Mall's parking lot. I'm also working on a new actual-play game podcast where we're going to be playing a lot of Penumbra City with other members of Strangers and our friends. The podcast probably isn't coming out for another month or two, but we're starting on some pre-production work now!

New Collaboration!

We have begun a new collaboration with our friends at Cool Zone Media! Live Like the World is Dying is teaming up with It Could Happen Here for a series of podcast episodes on the basics of preparedness! We'll be doing a monthly episode with them on the ICHH feed. The first one is already out! Listen to me (Inmn) talk to James about the basics of what Community Preparedness is and why it's important! I'm really proud of this episode and think that it distills a lot of the lessons we've learned throughout doing Live Like the World is Dying for five years!Listen here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/community-preparedness-basics-with-live-like-288156408/

New Releases

We have quite a few new things coming out really soon, including a lot of Fancy Zines!

Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist This one came out last month, but we're rapidly finishing up the audiobook for it, which will come out in August!

Like Mushrooms After the Rain: the Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok This zine is an incomplete history of some poor Jewish teenager who read a ton of anarchy from one small corner of the Russian Empire between 1903 and 1907. They identified the entire social order as their enemy and set about attacking it with words, daggers, bullets, fire, and bombs—lots of bombs. Hurrah for Anarchy/Anarchy and Its Misunderstanders This oneis a double Fancy Zine of texts by Margaret Killjoy, printed similarly to an old pulpy sci-fi double novel, with two front covers. It's gonna be really beautiful! Neither of these texts will be new to Patreon subscribers. You can read and listen to both of them as they were monthly features in the last two years, one a historical essay on the Haymarket Martyrs and the other an essay about our beloved anarchy. But we're really excited to be getting them printed as a Fancy Zine with some amazing artwork of the Haymarket martyrs statue as well as a circle a design that didn't make it into Try Anarchism For Life.

Baba Yaga Burns Paris to the Ground: Wren Awry writes about fairy tales, food, literature, ecology, history, and film from an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist perspective. This is actually a very old Strangers title, but we love it so much that we're reprinting it!

Coming Soon (we hope!)

The Folktales of Lowland Cekon We have a set of short stories by Margaret, set in the world of her novel The Sapling Cage (Feminist Press, 2024). This Fancy Zine is going to be extra fancy and includes a beautifully illustrated duplex cover and interior illustrations by Robin Savage. Watch an in-process illustration below! Robin drew a lot of inspiration for the visuals from her vintage fairy tale book collection from the 1920s, passed down from her grandma! "The lowlands of Cekon are famous for so many things: thick mist, thick forests, and thick heads justto name a few. The lowlands are famous for ill-tempered weather, ill-temperedmen, ill-temperedwomen, and ill-tempered monsters. And they’re famous for their stories."

Together or Not at All This zine is from Live Like the World is Dying contributor Bex Berryhill and is a guide to collective property ownership including many legal frameworks as well as case studies on a few different anarchist projects from punk houses to land projects.

Up:RisingThis one is a book, an anthology in fact, and is a partnership with Workman Arts, an multi-disciplinary arts organization from Toronto. Up:Rising is a collection of rebellious imaginings from authors with lived experience of mental health and addictions. This is coming out around October probably and will have a more accessible and local distribution in Canada.

Merch

We've got new merch coming! We're finally reprinting the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness shirt as well as a new version of the Live Like the World is Dying shirt. We're going to be posting some of the leftover Uliksi patches from The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice Kickstarter. We're not sure if we're printing more, but they will be available here for Patreon subscribers first as we decide if we're printing more! We also have a new patch coming out. Sew it on your vest or frame it on your wall! It's a portrait of Willem Arondéus a gay Dutch partisan who fought the Nazi's and famously said before being executed, "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards."

That's it! Well, sorta. We have ton of other projects in the works right now, but that's all I'm gonna talk about right now...cause that's actually kind of a lot of stuff! Thanks so much for all of your support. We wouldn't be able to do even a fourth of this stuff without you! Oh yeah, The Spectacle is working on an episode about...Star Trek! So keep an eyes out for that!Best, Inmn