Hey, cis dudes. I need you to show up as allies at trans #pride events this month. Don’t make a big deal out of it. Don’t expect to win awards for it. Don’t hit on people. Don’t make it about you. Just swell our numbers.

And stand between us and the cops and transphobes, please.

#boost welcome.

David Graeber and Andrej Grubačić, in an introduction to Mutual Aid:

"When Mutual Aid was first released, in 1902, there were few scientists courageous enough to challenge the idea that capitalism and nationalism were rooted in human nature or that the authority of states was ultimately inviolable. Most who did were written off either as crackpots or, if they were too obviously important to be dismissed in this way, like Albert Einstein, as "eccentrics" whose political views had about as much significance as their unusual hairstyles. The rest of the world though is moving along. Will the scientists -- even, possibly, the social scientists -- eventually follow?

We write this introduction during a wave of global popular revolt against racism and state violence, as public authorities spew venom against "anarchists" in much the way they did in Kropotkin's time. It seems a peculiarly fitting moment to raise a glass to that old "despiser of law and private property" who changed the face of science in ways that continue to affect us today. [...]

We find ourselves -- once again -- surprised by just how deeply we agree with its central argument. The only viable alternative to capitalist barbarism is stateless socialism, a product, as the great geographer never ceased to remind us, "of tendencies that are apparent now in the society" and that were "always, in some sense, imminent in the present."

To create a new world, we can only start by rediscovering what is and has always been right before our eyes.

Kropotkin was a biologist. May we come close to the kind of radical ideas he brought to the world in anything we do.

Thanks to @nobonzo for this beautiful illustrated copy of mutual aid