Hello! Where to begin? I'm a former #historian who got a PhD in 2019, studying the history of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. In 2020, I completely switched gears and became a software engineer, but still moonlight as a freelance #writer. I write too much about #food. My taste in #music is all over the map, I'm always looking for new projects and work, and I spend too much time playing #videogames.
In making our #Podcast one of the things we wanted to be sure of was creating a syllabus to go along with it. For our last episode with Dr. Sam Anderson, the syllabus was structured around #publishing and African American contributions to publishing. Why? Because disseminating information is how you learn about #resistance
The links is below! Even if you haven't listened, you might find a few tidbits there.
https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/i/164822523/multimedia-syllabus
My latest piece for Dame. There’s no more life left in “it can’t happen here,” but the administration sending troops is actually setting up a huge risk for itself. They’re expecting compliance and want a quick victory; the reality is that this can easily blow up in their face.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/06/11/we-arent-headed-toward-authoritarianism-were-here/
My latest piece for Dame. There’s no more life left in “it can’t happen here,” but the administration sending troops is actually setting up a huge risk for itself. They’re expecting compliance and want a quick victory; the reality is that this can easily blow up in their face.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/06/11/we-arent-headed-toward-authoritarianism-were-here/
I did something I’ve never done before, which is to write about a musical. King Kong’s got a fascinating history, tragic in points but also a testament to South Africa’s incredible music.
https://picturingblackhistory.org/king-kong-integration-and-apartheid/
ICYMI, here is our first (of many to come) #podcast! It's an interview with Dr. Sam Anderson about his #history docucomic on the African Slave Trade, The Black Holocaust for Beginners. In it, Dr. Anderson talks about his influences, his experiences in the #civilrights movement, and the importance of #publishing to build a culture of #resistance.
Check it out!
https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/p/dr-se-anderson-black-holocaust-for
Like any slick outfit, we've got a Masto handle you can follow here: https://kolektiva.social/@ResistantCommPod
This is a project that I've been assisting with and am looking forward to seeing the future of! Our first interview is with Dr. Sam Anderson on his docucomic, The Black Holocaust for Beginners.
If you like what we're doing, please subscribe or share!
https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/p/dr-se-anderson-black-holocaust-for
Like any slick outfit, we've got a Masto handle you can follow here: https://kolektiva.social/@ResistantCommPod
This is a project that I've been assisting with and am looking forward to seeing the future of! Our first interview is with Dr. Sam Anderson on his docucomic, The Black Holocaust for Beginners.
If you like what we're doing, please subscribe or share!
https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/p/dr-se-anderson-black-holocaust-for
The Resistant Communiqués Collective is thrilled to launch the Resistant Communiqués #Podcast this May in honor of May Day, International Workers’ Day, with a powerful episode featuring Dr. S.E. Anderson.
In 2025, we are living through an era of book bans in the United States, one that rivals the era of McCarthyism. Florida has led the charge nationally with legislation allowing any school district member to challenge books held by a school library. Florida alone has challenged more than 4,000 books in the past few years, and other states are working on passing similar legislation. These political acts are part of an organized strategy to attack civil rights #history, LGBTQ history, and women’s history.
However, it is vitally important that we produce these stories and make them accessible to all, particularly young people. Dr. Anderson, an author, educator, founding member of the Harlem Black Panther Party and the NYC Coalition to Finally End Mayoral Control, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC), and a lifelong organizer, published a visual primer, a docu-comic, on the Atlantic Slave Trade entitled The Black Holocaust for Beginners.
In the docu-comic, The Black Holocaust for Beginners, Dr. Anderson lays bare the understudied and enduring violence that people of African descent experienced for centuries, written to teach younger generations and non-readers.
In February 2023, while one of our collective members was watching a video by The Conscious Lee about book bans, Dr. Anderson’s docu-comic, The Black Holocaust for Beginners, flashed onto the screen as one of the banned books. They reached out and recorded this episode with Dr. Anderson to discuss his critical text.
The Resistant Communiqués Collective chose to launch the Resistant Communiqués Podcast here to honor the foundational yet violently coerced labor of Africans who were enslaved and built the wealth of the United States and to reflect on what that legacy means today.
Listen, learn, & study with us.
In Solidarity and Struggle,
Resistant Communiqués Collective
https://resistantcommpod.substack.com/p/dr-se-anderson-black-holocaust-for
My latest for Dame! The best way to understand Trump's foreign policy is that it's really an obsession with weakness and believing that the country is weak -- hence the need to return it to strength. It's a neurosis and it guides our foreign policy.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/29/fascism-is-a-weak-persons-idea-of-strength/
@liquor_american Thank you! And yes, that's Trump's whole modus operandi. It was how he worked as a businessman, too. Very little has changed.
@mayintoronto Yeah...it's not a great time to be a writer, even by the standards of being a writer.
@mayintoronto I tell myself that at least. Really, it was right on time too; my editor at Teen Vogue told me at the start of the year that the mag had gutted its freelance budget, so the odds of me writing for them anytime in the near future are unlikely.
@mayintoronto Thank you, May! Sometimes I don't know if this is useful or if I'm just rambling/writing for myself.
My latest for Dame! The best way to understand Trump's foreign policy is that it's really an obsession with weakness and believing that the country is weak -- hence the need to return it to strength. It's a neurosis and it guides our foreign policy.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/29/fascism-is-a-weak-persons-idea-of-strength/
@monicarooney Nah, still funny.
We're at the point where we're building concentration camps. The trajectory from here is not a good one. I wrote about it for Dame Magazine. #USpol
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/08/its-not-hyperbole-to-call-cecot-a-concentration-camp/
I'm looking to take on more paying freelance work, so if you're looking to work with a writer, curriculum developer, or researcher who has a background in history, I'd love to be that person!
My latest piece for @damemagazine on US conservatives’ whiplash relationship with Russia. The Cold War helped to sow seeds that ironically turned many Republicans into what they are today: anti-globalization, anti-cooperation, and pro-strongman.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/08/hasnt-russia-always-been-our-worst-enemy/
