September Update (Patreon)

Margaret here with your September update!

First of all, catch us tabling:

New York City Anarchist Bookfair -- September 13, 2025
Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB) -- September 27-28, 2025

Anyway...

I once wrote a screenplay that will never see the light of day, and it was called “No September,” the title referencing the sort of… quest for eternal summer that we can fall into in our youth. Could never be me, though, I love autumn and I love winter. As our world slides further towards its melting point, I find myself looking forward to the cold more and more anxiously. I want to savor every snowflake as it falls. (Okay, that said, I'm not excited about the likely early frost that is going to fuck up our gardens here where I live in the mountains.)

There’s not a lot of big news this month out of us, except that we’re all hard at work producing a ton of new stuff. Last month was a big month for releases, and you can of course still snag all our newest zines in one bundle. Our Live Like the World is Dying crew has started teaming up with It Could Happen Here over on Cool Zone Media to bring community prepper content to the masses, which rules... expect about one episode a month, including our first one. And soon enough (maybe even by the time you read this!) I’ll be on The Spectacle talking about Andor with Io and Hazel.

In podcasting when you pair an expert with someone who doesn’t know anything about a subject, the know-nothing is called “the podcast idiot,” and I’m the podcast idiot on that particular episode, because I’ve seen the show and I’ve seen the movies, but my lord is there so much War In The Stars I don’t know the first thing about. Fortunately, Hazel and Io do.

Elsewhere in anarchist publishing this month, CrimethInc has put out the useful "A Demonstrator's Guide to Operational Security." Which maybe you need. I don't know.

Anyway, always remember: pay enough attention to what's happening in the world so that you can get scared. Only the scared can be brave, and everything is better when you're brave.