Cindy Milstein (they)<p>Thanks to the awesome and rad folks at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>igd_news</span></a></span>, my latest curated zine, “Ritual as Resistance: 18 Stories of Defending the Sacred,” is now available on its website to read, and as PDFs to download, print, and distro freely. See link below.</p><p>And support your indie anarchist media—with your dollars and readership!!</p><p>Excerpt from my intro to the zine:</p><p>“We make our own sacred spaces — spaces on no maps — through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our ‘grief knows no borders.’</p><p>“This zine is a sampler of some of the modest ways that anarchistic people from varied traditions are doing just that, and gestures toward ‘bigger’ ones. It’s impossible to understand Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, or Palestinian solidarity encampments, say, without acknowledging the key role of rebellious spiritualities. For one example, see the film ‘Yintah.’</p><p>“My hope is that this humble zine inspires you to imaginatively blur the line between ritual and resistance, until the death machine sputters and stalls, and all that then moves freely is life. For it is us, side by side, that can make all sacred against the profane of this world. Because our love knows no borders.”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RitualAsResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RitualAsResistance</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendingTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TryAnarchismForLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TryAnarchismForLife</span></a></p><p><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-resistance-18-stories-of-defending-the-sacred/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-res</span><span class="invisible">istance-18-stories-of-defending-the-sacred/</span></a></p>
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Cindy Milstein (they)<p>Friendly reminder: I’m still seeking submissions for the next zine I’m curating, titled “Ritual as Resistance: Defending the Sacred.” </p><p>Length: 125 words, give or take <br>Deadline: May 11<br>Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo [dot] com</p><p>Please share this “call” far and wide!</p><p>I’m looking for concrete examples of rituals you’ve held space for and/or participated in; that draw on your own cultural practices and/or ancestral traditions; that blur the lines between sacred and rebellious, or shake up what the spiritual+political feels like; and especially, that are collectively and/or publicly done. (See fuller description in my previous post.) </p><p>Here’s a sample of one that I’ll be using in the zine, as inspiration and to offer a sense of what I want (though please note, I am NOT only looking for Jewish rituals—though we anarchist Jews love our rad rituals!): </p><p>“Fascists sticker-bomb your neighborhood. This hurts. Not merely because the memory of eleven people killed at the Tree of Life building—your childhood shul—still lingers, but they’re crafty bigots. They deliberately drop provocative flyers on people’s doorsteps to try to break solidarity between Palestinians and Jews. This inspires you to counter with agitprop. The ritual technology of prayer, in Judaism, allows us to make the most mundane moments holy. The eating of bread and sipping wine. Through the language of our ancestors, we make these acts sacred, connecting us with all who’ve performed them across the axis of time. You arm yourself with new ritual implements: a paint scraper, sharpies, and wheat paste, along with an extending pole for higher spots. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, even these moments where we cover up white supremacist drek can be holy!”<br>—Anastasia bat Lilith (@stormbringer_press)</p><p>(photo: glimpse of an elaborate, bilingual grief and ritual space that I and three beautifully caring anarchists set up for the whole weekend during the May 2023 @montrealanarchist)</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RitualAsResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RitualAsResistance</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendingTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TryAnarchismForLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TryAnarchismForLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> (with love and blessed remembrance to Klee Benally)</p>
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