
What would it look like to organise the world around care instead of profit? Not as a fantasy. As a serious, uncomfortable, unresolved question.
A Thousand Small Fires is a podcast that takes anarchist, feminist, and queer thought seriously — not as a doctrine to follow, but as a lens for asking better questions. About work, food, love, land, the state, the prison, the family, the body. About who ... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 9 | Founded | a month ago |
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The anarchist tradition has spent a lot of time thinking about who controls the workplace, the land, the state. It has spent less time asking the same question about something closer and more uncomfortable: who controls the relationship?
Marriage, a... more
Queerness, in the anarchist frame, is not an identity category. It is a political position — the refusal of the compulsory, the normal, the assigned. The refusal to accept that the state should be in the business of certifying which love is real.
Th... more
Anarchism has a feminist core. Not added later, not bolted on — there from the beginning. This episode is about three women who built the tradition and were largely written out of its history.
Emma Goldman: deported from the United States in 1919 af... more
In the United States, you can buy a cheeseburger on almost any corner in South Central Los Angeles. Finding a fresh tomato requires a forty-five-minute drive. That is not geography. That is food apartheid — a term coined by food justice advocate Kare... more
The most fundamental question in anarchist politics is not about the state or the prison. It is about food. Because the question of who controls the means of subsistence — who owns the land, who owns the seed, who decides what gets grown and who gets... more
Imagine that everyone doing unpaid care work decided to stop. Not strike — just stop. The economy would not slow down. It would collapse within days.
This episode is about the labour that capitalism runs on and refuses to name. Cooking, childcare, e... more
After Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, the Red Cross refused to coordinate with the volunteer networks that had formed — because those networks were connected to Occupy Wall Street. What filled the gap was mutual aid. And the difference between ... more
In 1886, four men were hanged in Chicago. Not for what they did — for what they believed. That is where this episode starts: not with a definition of anarchism, but with why the idea has always been treated as a crime.
This is the framework episode.... more
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