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How do we live in a world that might be ending? By preparing to survive that end and by working to prevent it. A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This podcast provides audio versions of our monthly feature as well as interviews with the contributors. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t k ...
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The Anarcho-Geek Power Hour! A podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every...I dont know, month or so we get some anti-authoritarian freaks together to talk about video games and comics and shit as a springboard to get silly in ways that are totally parody and not court admissible, nice try FBI. A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
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Summary This time on Strangers we have something very exciting on the channel! We have an actual-play recording of Penumbra City, the TTRPG that we’ve been working on over at Strangers for a very long time. We are sharing this session of us playing the game in order to get you excited about our KICKSTARTER for the game, which is currently live righ…
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Summary This time on Live Like the World is Dying, we’re talking about something crucial to surviving the apocalypse: playing games with your friends. And Killing God Kings. That’s right, we have an actual play recording of us playing Penumbra city, the TTRPG that we’ve been working on over at Strangers for…a very long time. We are sharing this ses…
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Ep.17 – Basic First Aid for Emergencies by Riot Medicine with Bex
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Summary This month on Strangers we highlight one of our skill zines, Basic First Aid for Emergencies by Riot Medicine. Bex comes on to share some stories about responding to emergencies. They also talk about the importance of first aid and why everyone should learn a little. The word of the month is a very well named plant Guest Info Riot Medicine …
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Episode Summary Margaret talks with Sprout and Charyan from Sabot Media and The Blackflower Collective about organizing in rural areas and how that can be different from organizing in more urban areas. Sprout and Charyan talk about the different projects that Sabot Media and The Blackflower Collective work on, supporting unhoused people, the import…
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S1E70 - Margaret on Go Bags Part II
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Episode Summary On this week's Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Inmn finish their talk about go bags. They talk about important documents, knives, tools, sleeping systems, shelters, coping with isolation, food, water, firearms, specific situations you might need a go bag for, and of course, DnD. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter …
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Episode Summary On this week's Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Inmn talk about what goes in a go bag, or bug out bag as they are sometimes called, and how being oogles might have set them up for being preppers. They talk about the different purposes one might make a go bag for, the different smaller kits that make them up, as well as oth…
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S1E68 - This Month in the Apocalypse: April
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Episode Summary This time on This Month in the Apocalypse, Margaret, Brooke, and Inmn talk about a lot of stuff that happened in April. They explore the history of Mayday, what will happen if the US defaults on its debts, Brooke's reasons for not wanting to become a Dracula, strikes, a report from the Sudanese Anarchist Gathering on the current con…
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Summary This month on Strangers, we have a short memoir like piece by Molly B’Damn called Moll Parts. It’s a nonlinear story of vignettes about working in strip clubs for ten years. After the story, stay for an interview with the author and a special guest interviewer. The word of the month this month is the unlikely origin and meaning of what migh…
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Episode Summary James teaches Margaret about sourdough bread. He provides specific instructions on how to start a sourdough starter, keep it alive, and how to then turn the starter into tasty bread. Margaret and James also discuss the intricacies of British vs American English and Margaret learns about a magical Belgian spoon. Guest Info James Stou…
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S1E66 - Eric on Talking Trash on Traditional Prepping
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Episode Summary Margaret and Eric discuss the ins and outs of prepping from a more traditional perspective than usual. They go over the basic tenets of preparedness, outline some easy and manageable ways to start prepping, find new and fun ways to laugh at traditional bunker mentalities, and discover that community is once again the best resource a…
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Episode Summary Carrot and Margaret talk about all things hiking, including thru-hiking and ultralight hiking. They talk about how to choose the right gear for the right purposes and how to minimize the impacts of long distance hiking on your body. They go through the complications of bringing dogs on long hikes and how to stay safer around grizzly…
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Episode Summary Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Guest Info Jonas Goonface can be found IG @jonasgoonface and Twitter @jonasgoonface (also people over 18 should follow the NSFW art account @jonaspornface) Publisher …
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Ep.15 – The Case of Arog Bine by G.J. Morbidelli
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Episode Notes Summary This month on Strangers, we have a short piece of science fiction by G.J. Morbidelli called “The Case of Arog Bine” a story about the multigenerational task of repairing a ship and the strange machines you might meet along the way. After the story, Inmn and George talk about writing, world building, and sci-fi tropes. The word…
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S1E64 - This Month in the Apocalypse: March 2023
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Episode Summary Brooke and Margaret talk about every thing that went wrong this last month, and some good things. Sort of. They talk about more chemical spills, storing water and water filtration, tornadoes, more news on anti trans bills, inflation, super fun fungi, not fun at all guy Trump and his indictment, and how a drone (or satellite phone) c…
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S1E63 - Agatha on Ukrainian Mutual Aid
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Episode Summary Margaret and Agatha talk about mutual aid in Ukraine and Agatha's experience trying to go there to fight in an anti-authoritarian platoon, but ending up doing a bunch of mutual aid supply distribution work instead. They talk about he intricacies of relief work and some of the special circumstances in Ukraine. Heavy content warning o…
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S1E62 - Janet on Sustainable Foraging
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Episode Summary Janet and Margaret talk about sustainable foraging, herbalism, wild tending, constructive ethics on why you might choose not to wildcraft, ways to impact your food intake in small but meaningful ways, unlearning extractive tendencies when harvesting food and medicine, and upholding indigenous wisdom around wild tending. Guest Info J…
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Episode Summary The first recorded episode of AGPH from earlier in the year! 3 of the Strangers gang chin wag about their favorite apocalypse media, what fictional universe they would do best/worst in were civilization to go dicks up, and what apocalypse media says about how people view human nature. Topics discussed include zombie media as colonia…
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S1E61 - Alissa & Alex on Surviving the Justice System
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Episode Summary Brooke talks with Alissa and Alex about horrors of the legal system. She walks through both of their legal ordeals from the circumstances of their targeting, arrests, court appearances, and current statuses. Alissa and Alex were both arrested separately in connection to violence from the far Right. Guest Info Alissa Azar (she/they) …
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S1E60 - This Month in the Apocalypse: Feb. 2023
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Episode Summary Brooke, Casandra, and Margaret talk about the war in Ukraine and how Russia is not doing great, the train derailment in East Palestine, anti trans bills, Adderall shortages and meth, the return of Big Chicken, long covid as potential auto immune disease, further bans on abortion drugs, drought, floods, earthquakes and the US's top p…
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Summary "Lidlekh" is an exploration of the music and history of the Vilna Ghetto Uprising. Aurora tells Inmn about the resistance fighters, poets, and musicians that participated in the underground resistance of the Nazi occupation of Poland. They talk about the power of music, historical contexts, the mythos of the dark forest, and the true histor…
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Episode Summary Brooke and Carla talk about parenting as radicals and youth autonomy, but more importantly, they talk about adult supremacy, the history of it, the ways it influences all of our lives and strategies for confronting it as parents and non parents. They breakdown childism, and talk about how the most important thing you can do is liste…
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S1E58 - This Month in the Apocalypse: Jan 2023
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Episode Summary Brooke, Casandra, and Margaret talk about some laws that the ATF just imposed and how you might soon be a felon, some bizarre tax proposals that have been in the works for the last quarter of a century, and check in our old friend, the Colorado River in This Month in the Apocalypse. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpie…
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Ep.13 – Escape from Incel Island (The Game) w/ Margaret & It Could Happen Here
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Summary We play an RPG written by Inmn with some of the folks from It Could Happen Here. The game is set in the world of Margaret's new book, Escape from Incel Island. To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a goldenopportunity: any one who felt like they were owed a free woman could move to a remote islandand be g…
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Episode Summary Margaret and Nadia talk about harm reduction, what it is, how it relates to community preparedness, strategies for including harm reduction in your preparedness routines, and a little bit of history and legality as relates to different kinds of drug use. Guest Info Nadia works with Next Distro and can be found at https://nextdistro.…
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Episode Summary Io and Margaret go through the Star Wars narratives, Andor, and Rogue One, and talk about where they overlap historically with real resistance movements, what the narratives are commentating on about current resistance movements, where the representation falls short and generally why the Mon Calamari are the downest people in the un…
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Episode Summary Brooke and Margaret recap the passed year of horrifying events, from climate collapse, to inflation economics, to developments with Covid, mass shooting, why the police continue to suck, culture wars, bodily autonomy, why capitalism ruins everything, as well as a glimpse of what could be coming this next year both hopeful and dreadf…
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Ep.12 – Why The Wind Howls by Alex Dial
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Summary A short fictional piece about creation, love, the wind and the moon. Afterwards, Inmn talks to Alex, about writing, myths, DIY theater, a horrifying legal system, and exploring love through cataclysm. Guest Info Alex Dial (He/Him) is a writer and circus performer. He can be found on Mastodon @Betacuck4life. Publisher This podcast is publish…
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S1E55 - Cindy Barukh Milstein on Trying Anarchism for Life
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Episode Summary Margaret and Casandra talk with Cindy Milstein about what anarchism actually is, why you should try it, possibly for life, the many horrors of fascism, and once again why community is all too important. They also talk about Milstein's new book from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, "Try Anarchism for Life." Guest Info The guest is …
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Ep.11 – Why Sheep Might Save Your Life One Day by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
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Episode Notes SummaryA short personal article about wool diapers, and the importance of natural fibers and passing on knowledge. After the article, Inmn interviews Kelly about making things, writing, preparedness, monstrosity and a bunch of other things. Guest Info Kelly Rose Pflug-Back (She/they) does all kinds of writing from, grass roots journal…
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S1E54 - Shane Burley on Conspiracy Theories
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Episode Summary Brooke and Casandra talk with Why We Fight author, Shane Burley about conspiracy theories, false consciousness amongst the right, how mythos get built to influence how people think, and how the root of a lot of conspiracy theories is anti-semitism. Guest Info Shane Burley can be found on Twitter @Shane_Burley1, on Instagram @ShaneBu…
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Episode Summary Margaret and Ellie talk about building a better culture around guns, the importance of gun ownership for community and self defense, some basic tenets of firearm safety, ideas around conflict deterrence, some problems with our current gun culture, consent and guns, mental health and guns, and unsurprisingly how community might be a …
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Episode Notes Episode Summary Margaret and Smokey talk about ways to go about mental first aid, how to alter responses to trauma for you self and as a community, different paths to resiliency, and why friendship and community are truly the best medicine. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Pub…
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Episode Notes Summary Inmn talks with fellow Strangers Collective member Io about their comic "Make Total Destroy." We talk about comix with an 'x', how to make comics, the weird world of comics, how DC might steal your ideas, anarchist struggles in Exarcheia, Greece, and some wacky anecdotes that will have Bugs Bunny going "wtf?!" Guest Info Io ca…
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S1E51 - This Month In the Apocalypse: October
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Episode Notes Episode SummaryFor this episode of This Month in the Apocalypse, Brooke, Margaret, and Casandra chat about more horrible things and some ways to work through some of these problems. They talk about supply chain shortages, corn, ways to keep your house warmer without using a ton of energy or resources, dubious debunked how warming myth…
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Ep.9 – Try Anarchism For Life by Cindy Barukh Milstein
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Episode Notes SummaryExplore Cindy Milstein's new book, Try Anarchism For Life with the prologue and an interview with the author where we talk about about the story behind their new book, why you might consider trying anarchism, and the importance of story telling. Try Anarchism For Life is out on November 1st, though you can preorder it right now…
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S1E50 - This Month In The Apocalypse
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Episode Notes Episode SummaryFor this This Month in the Apocalypse episode Brooke, Margaret, and Casandra all researched different topics and discuss them. Margaret talks about climate collapse, droughts, floods, wildfires, the cost of wheat, and the dangers of rising humidity for wet bulb temperatures. Casandra talks about Monkey Pox, rises in oth…
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Episode Notes SummaryExplore the world of Penumbra City, a TTRPG produced by Strangers through a short story by a literal and fictional version of Margaret Killjoy as well as an interview about the development of the game with Margaret and Robin, the art director. Guest InfoThe story was written by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birds…
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S1E49 - Andre on Solar Power, DIY Internet, Mesh Networks, and Solar Punk
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Episode Notes Episode summary Andre and Margaret talk about a lot of things. They talk about recycling/reusing/remelting plastics, turning them into fuel, setting up solar power systems, setting up DIY internet, intranets and mesh networks as well as some concepts dealing with solar punk and hydroponics, and of course how most things can be easily …
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Episode Notes Episode summaryMargaret talks with Paige, who works in composting and humanure systems, about how to set up systems for disposing of food and human waste, different kinds of systems that can be used including worm composting, and the importance of thinking about the scale and purpose of your system. Guest InfoPaige can be found on Twi…
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Ep.7 – Pelecanimimus And The Battle For Mosquito Ridge by Izzy Wasserstein
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Episode Notes SummaryHow things could have been different for the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War if they made friends with dinosaurs... Guest InfoIzzy Wasserstein can be found at https://izzywasserstein.com or on Twitter @Izzyxen. You can buy her short story collection Home Towns You Can't Stay Away From at http://www.Neonhemlock.com/ Publishe…
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Episode Notes Episode summaryIn this new monthly segment, members of the Strangers Collective discuss current events as they relate to community preparedness. If you're watching the news and wondering what's going on with inflation, supply chain shortages, the heat "wave", or Q'anon talking about space lasers and the black holes that are causing al…
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S1E46 - Four Thieves Vinegar Collective on The Promise of DIY Pharmaceutical Abortions and Drugs for Long Covid
Episode Notes Episode summary:Margaret talks with Mixael from the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective about access to different medical technologies, biohacking access, and how the medical industrial complex complicates that. They talk about the importance of being able to audit medical access and ways you can build medical infrastructure in your own c…
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Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret and Casandra talk about some of the basics of preparedness and how to get started even if you don't have a lot of money or skills. They go through their lists of things they always consider when preparing for crises, whether that be a natural disaster, "the bomb", food shortages, inflation, the further advance…
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Episode Notes Episode Summary:Mo, a criminal defense/movement lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, talks about how Grand Juries are used by the State to destabilize communities, and what your options are for resisting them if you are issued a subpoena. Margaret and them talk about the importance of not cooperating with Grand Juries and how you c…
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Ep.6 – Wash Sea Out of Hair and Drive by Sevi Giovanni Xcetera
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Episode Notes Publisher:This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness For a Digital version of the zine click on our website! Author:Th…
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Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret talks with Elle, an anarchist and security professional, about different threat modeling approaches and analyzing different kinds of threats. They explore physical threats, digital security, communications, surveillance,and general OpSec mentalities for how to navigate the panopticon and do stuff in the world …
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S1E42 - Bay Area Doula Project on Abortion and Abortion Access
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Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret talks with two people who work with the Bay Area Doula Project. They talk about different kinds of abortions, histories of abortion methods, different kinds of self-managed abortions, clincal and procedural abortions, pharmacological methods vs herbal methods, and abortion access. Guest Info Bay Area Doula Pro…
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Episode Notes This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness The author is Sofia Samatar. She can be found at https://www.sofiasamatar.c…
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Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret and Casandra talk about the importance of learning mediation skills, what mediation is and what different processes look like. Guest Info The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be fou…
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Episode Notes This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness The author Bella Hangnail can be found at www.bellahangnail.com or on spoti…
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