Cindy Milstein (they) on Nostr: All of my book projects are labors of love, from start to finish, and on all levels, ...
All of my book projects are labors of love, from start to finish, and on all levels, including the love that I trust makes its way into your heart.
In terms of any “royalties” generated, I’ve mainly been gifting them to the rad presses that publish my projects, believing we must #EducateOurselvesForFreedom as key to prefiguring forms of freedom, and dispersing the remaining funds to anarchist spaces and solidarity efforts.
Which brings me to the powerful prefigurative practices in my latest edited anthology, “Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice.” The publisher, @plutopress, kindly agreed to let me gift the proceeds to anarcha-feministic (read: queer+trans too) initiatives around the world, taking suggestions from the over 60 contributors to this collection that speaks this truth to this moment: “we are all we have, and here are messy-beautiful examples of how we take care of each other.”
So I’m delighted to announce the first round of redistributing the proceeds—expanding outward the “constellations of care” embodied in the book:
1. Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon: “We are a small grassroots group of queer/trans people in Lebanon working to secure material support for other queer/trans individuals. One of few in Lebanon to explicitly adopt a mutual aid philosophy, we put a lot of effort into integrating mutual aid concepts and dynamics in our feminist and queer practices. As we go through war now, we are working on the ground, within our means, to find shelter, mattresses, blankets, medicine, water, and transportation to those fleeing war zones in search of relative safety.”
2. A trusted collective in North American offering mutual aid HRT support for transfeminine people.
3. Funds to print and freely distro a zine created by LGBTQI youths in a writing workshop on “community care and reparative imagination” during this week’s (Nov 15-23) free events in Toulouse, France, called Days of Community Care, pulled together by a trans anarchist association called Clar-T.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349954/constellationsofcare/
https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
(photos: “together we grow queer anarchy” sticker by book contributor @rayan.forestgreen; book cover, designed by @eff_charm; QMAL art; “Future is trans” tag spotted in Pittsburgh)
In terms of any “royalties” generated, I’ve mainly been gifting them to the rad presses that publish my projects, believing we must #EducateOurselvesForFreedom as key to prefiguring forms of freedom, and dispersing the remaining funds to anarchist spaces and solidarity efforts.
Which brings me to the powerful prefigurative practices in my latest edited anthology, “Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice.” The publisher, @plutopress, kindly agreed to let me gift the proceeds to anarcha-feministic (read: queer+trans too) initiatives around the world, taking suggestions from the over 60 contributors to this collection that speaks this truth to this moment: “we are all we have, and here are messy-beautiful examples of how we take care of each other.”
So I’m delighted to announce the first round of redistributing the proceeds—expanding outward the “constellations of care” embodied in the book:
1. Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon: “We are a small grassroots group of queer/trans people in Lebanon working to secure material support for other queer/trans individuals. One of few in Lebanon to explicitly adopt a mutual aid philosophy, we put a lot of effort into integrating mutual aid concepts and dynamics in our feminist and queer practices. As we go through war now, we are working on the ground, within our means, to find shelter, mattresses, blankets, medicine, water, and transportation to those fleeing war zones in search of relative safety.”
2. A trusted collective in North American offering mutual aid HRT support for transfeminine people.
3. Funds to print and freely distro a zine created by LGBTQI youths in a writing workshop on “community care and reparative imagination” during this week’s (Nov 15-23) free events in Toulouse, France, called Days of Community Care, pulled together by a trans anarchist association called Clar-T.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349954/constellationsofcare/
https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
(photos: “together we grow queer anarchy” sticker by book contributor @rayan.forestgreen; book cover, designed by @eff_charm; QMAL art; “Future is trans” tag spotted in Pittsburgh)