An end-of-the-year writing round up, inspired by ! I wrote a lot bc I was stuck in one place and bc writing was a way to stay in touch with the world while processing wtf was happening. I felt very grateful to have my writing this year. Here are the highlights:
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"The Right To Listen" was an essay I’d been thinking about for some time. We obsess over free speech and I wanted to articulate a corresponding (& feminist) principle of listening worth defending. I found the perfect editor in at
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When Covid hit I was included in this round-up of prophecies for Politico that turned out to be the most read digital story of the year, which is wild. I'm not much of a futurist.
politico.com/news/magazine/
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I was glad to have written this piece with my vegan comrades and @TroyVettese.
Eating meat is a socially acceptable form of science denial. Wanna stop the next pandemic? Stop eating it.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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I wrote two pieces for with , someone whose political work I deeply admire. We wrote about procedural power-struggles in Congress and the politics of state budgets.
theintercept.com/2020/06/13/def
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I got to write about socialists running for office for the .
I spoke to , , and others right before they triumphed.
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I wrote a piece with the wonderful supported by on our debt to frontline healthcare workers.
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I wrote about the pandemic and the need for solidarity across species with my wonderful sister .
One day we will write more on this topic together — maybe in 2021.
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I wrote a long reported piece on the crisis of the modern university, and some possible cures, for at the .
I also learned the Greek word scholé means free time, suspension, contemplation, and delay.
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A long meditation for the on the philosophy of debt, corporate bond markets post-Covid, David Graeber’s legacy, & the fact Biden can & should cancel all federal student loans on day one of his administration. With huge help from @carlahblumen.
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I got to contribute something short for the launch of .
Yes, real democracy IS socialism.
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My last piece of the year now up at . Some recommendations for the Biden-Harris administration: Student loans, medical debt, mortgage payments, rent, and municipal debt should all be reduced or eliminated outright.
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I also co-authored Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition with my brilliant collaborators at (especially AL aka ).
Get it now from !
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I wrote quite a bit of a forthcoming book on solidarity with the brilliant and insightful . Watch out for it next year.
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Finally, I wrote a new long piece on conspiracies and how we need to conspire (literally, breathe together) for a collection of my essays called Remake the World forthcoming from .
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