And Now, In December... (Patreon)

Happy/Merry Greetings from a very wet corner of the so-called USA. We hope this message finds you in good health.

As a collective, we've been fortunate this year. We attended bookfairs and other events across the nation, where we connected with hundreds of readers, listeners, and patrons, and we made new friends. We published three new books and several additional skills zines, with many more of both slated for 2026. Those of you who support our flagship podcast, Live Like the World is Dying, have continued in your amazing enthusiasm and humbling loyalty. Thank you for being on this journey with us, and sharing the pod with your friends.

Our final LLWD episode of 2025 will be "This Year in the Apocalypse" and it comes out on 12/26/25. For an uplifting twist, we're gonna talk about some of the GOOD SHIT that happened this year. Then we'll take our annual hiatus in January, replaying some of our favorite past episodes while we rest, plan, and start recording new content. (Got ideas? Please share! We want to cover the topics that will be helpful for all of you!)

January will also bring a special monthly mailer for those in our Zine of the Month and Acknowledgement tiers here on Patreon: Instead of the usual, quarter-size monthly zine, you get a half-page size envelope with THREE very cool things:

1) "And the Clean Bones Gone" (a Danielle Cain short story) by Margaret Killjoy.2) NEW! Skills zine #7 on how to build out an emergency "Go Bag."3) Our 2026 catalog, which is also a foldout poster of Willem Arondeus, a gay Dutch radical who forged papers so people could escape Nazi occupation.

(Psst! If you're not part of the Zine of the Month tier, you have through December 31 to bump up or join up, and you'll get the big January mailer!)

There's a lot of hardship in the world right now, and as we celebrate the highlights of 2025, we are by no means ignoring the pain, fear, sadness, and uncertainty that sometimes threaten to engulf us. The years ahead will surely bring more struggles and challenges. We are reminded, however, that progress toward greater freedom and true equality is the work of generations, and we are joined in this movement by all the very best kinds of people across the world. So even in these strange and uncertain times, may there still be love, community, security, and yes, even hope, in your life.