Signing Off For Now
As some of our followers may already know, we made the transition this past year from working full-time to becoming a freelancer. We’ve been supporting ourselves through teaching political education […]
Author Archives: Benji Hart
Black People Are Demanding Police Abolition—We Could Be Demanding Much More
The white and wealthy are lucky abolition is all we want.
Happening Now: Trans-Led Coalition Shuts Down Chicago Pride Parade
A trans-led coalition of Chicago-based organizations–headed by the Trans Liberation Collective and including the BTGNC Collective, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace, Assata’s Daughters and Pilsen Alliance–are shutting […]
Legs
legs I wrote down, which cannot / explain how tired we were
For Protection
A prayer for those in struggle.
It’s Time For Us to Rethink ‘The Talk’
Obedience will not protect Black kids from police–resistance will.
Hard-Fought
9 small poems on memory and loss
45 Questions to Ask While Waiting
A litany in the form of a list of questions.
You Are Already an Abolitionist
A world without prions and police already exists for the elite. Abolition means demanding that world exist for all.
A Brother Sits Directly Across From Me on the Red Line
and immediately we are performing the arithmetic of aloofness trying to work out which one should be relieved he is not the other […]
