A Spotlight on Rumors
Handmade transcript of a 2025 faculty award lecture by Kate Starbird at the University of Washington, laying out a decade-plus of disinformation research findings
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Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
Syria’s Islamized Armenians
The massacres in 1915 were followed by forcibly deporting Armenians to the Syrian desert. Many of the survivors of this deportation were small children who were adopted into local Arab and Kurdish families. After that, the story ends and these people disappear.
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Zine: Labor Will Feed the People
A zine on the role of union-organized mutual aid in supporting the 1919 Seattle General Strike.
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Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph Cohen’s monumental history of Jewish anarchism in America
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When Do Villains Become Heroes?
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
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Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
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Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond
Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming up with new ideas to name a rare situation, we keep reiterating the same old terms.
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The Partisan from Ryazan
Portrait of the outspoken Russian anarchist saboteur and prisoner Ruslan Sidiki
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Zine: Hierarchies of Solidarity
How do we decenter ourselves to be in solidarity with struggles not directly related to our lives? How do we do solidarity when it may be in contradiction with our values and experiences?
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