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Episode Summary

This time on Strangers, Casandra talks to Inmn about how to mediate a conflict. This episode started as a Live Like the World is Dying episode and got turned into a zine called Pocket Guide to Conflict Mediation. 1 Conflict happens, but it doesn’t have to be a disaster. Having the knowledge and tools on hand to deal with conflict before it happens is one of the best things we can do to ensure that our radical communities are supportive and sustainable to everyone involved. There are lots of ways to approach dealing with conflict in radical spaces, and this zine is about one possible method: mediation. You can read it for free at tangledwilderness.org.

Host Info

Casandra can be found on BlueSky @hey-casandra.bsky.social and Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtailartificery.

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Episode Summary

This month on Strangers, Miriam talks with Andy about his zine and the state of the world that inspired it. The title says it all. Find the zine at www.tangledwilderness.org.

Guest Info

Andy works with the Chosen Family Law Center, which offers free legal services for non-nuclear and LBGTQ families.

Chosenfamilylawcenter.org @andyeyeballs.bsky.social

Host Info

Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers' Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwildernes

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Episode Notes This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have Into the Terror Castle: Gabby and Cuervo 1 by Jackson Culpepper. Into the Terror Castle is a piece of short fiction about urban exploring, the horrors of Capitalism, and cryptids. And if you like it, it’s a series! And you can find more from Jackson at linktr.ee/jcculpepper. Read along for free tangledwilderness.org. The word of the month is about those who wish to remain hidden.

You can also find Jackson on Instagram @jcculpepper and Etsy at Zinesby Jackson.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Notes go here

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Episode Summary

On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Miriam, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in June, including a dive into the wildfires in Canada, an update the state of immigration enforcement, and a bit about a contentious election in NYC. Also, friend of the pod, Kneecap makes another appearance.

Here's a link for the fundraiser James mentions for Primrose: http://gofund.me/dda02cc7

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. James can be found on Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout. Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers' Bluesky

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwildernessEpisode Notes

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Episode Notes

This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have part two of a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast, with our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. In the last episode we had an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. Today's episode continues the interview. If you’d like to read the piece then check out our monthly features. You can also get a physical copy of our future monthly feature zines by signing up for our Patreon .

Our June feature was generously provided by Sara Blum, an internationalist who spent several years with the YPJ in Rojava, to accompany and contextualize our newest book, Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist, which is currently available for preorder as of right now at tangledwilderness.org, and will be regularly available/ship out in early-mid July.

Orso contains the first-person narrative of Lorenzo Orso Orsetti–also known as Heval (he-vawl) Tekoser (teko-cher) Piling (pih-ling), now Sehid (sheh-heath) Tekoser (teko-cher) or “martyr Tekoser–an internationalist soldier in Rojava. This journal was published in its original Italian following Oro’s death. We’re excited to bring you the first English edition, which includes additional essays that share the historical and cultural context in which Orso lived, fought, and died. We’re excited to bring his message to a new audience. The struggle against Daesh for an autonomous, liberated region in Rojava is bigger than one person, but one person’s life can offer us a glimpse of a vast project and how one life can fit into it.

Sara’s essay helps build a backdrop for the world Orso gives us a glimpse of in his journals. This is part one of this episode, as the interview with Sara ended up being quite long. Tune in in 2 weeks for the second half of the interview, as next week is This Month in the Apocalypse on Live Like the World is Dying. We won’t get to it until the second half of the interview, but the word of the month this month is about those who are mindful.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Notes go here

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Episode Notes

This month on Strangers, we have a crossover episode with Live Like the World is Dying, for our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. We have an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. But, if you’d like to read along then check out our monthly features on our website and you can read along there for free. You can also get a physical copy of our monthly feature zine, but unfortunately not this one, by signing up for our Patreon .

Our June feature was generously provided by Sara Blum, an internationalist who spent several years with the YPJ in Rojava, to accompany and contextualize our newest book, Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist, which is currently available for preorder as of right now at tangledwilderness.org, and will be regularly available/ship out in early-mid July.

Orso contains the first-person narrative of Lorenzo Orso Orsetti–also known as Heval (he-vawl) Tekoser (teko-cher) Piling (pih-ling), now Sehid (sheh-heath) Tekoser (teko-cher) or “martyr Tekoser–an internationalist soldier in Rojava. This journal was published in its original Italian following Oro’s death. We’re excited to bring you the first English edition, which includes additional essays that share the historical and cultural context in which Orso lived, fought, and died. We’re excited to bring his message to a new audience. The struggle against Daesh for an autonomous, liberated region in Rojava is bigger than one person, but one person’s life can offer us a glimpse of a vast project and how one life can fit into it.

Sara’s essay helps build a backdrop for the world Orso gives us a glimpse of in his journals. This is part one of this episode, as the interview with Sara ended up being quite long. Tune in in 2 weeks for the second half of the interview, as next week is This Month in the Apocalypse on Live Like the World is Dying. We won’t get to it until the second half of the interview, but the word of the month this month is about those who are mindful.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness BlueSky.

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Summary

This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn continue their talk with Olsen about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here. There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a word of the month, so that's on them.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness BlueSky.

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekill

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Summary

This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn talk with Olson about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here. There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a word of the month, so that's on them.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness BlueSky.

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

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Summary

This month on Strangers, we have The Memory Shop by Melissa Ren, a short story about grief, belonging, and memory alteration. The word of the month is about deep care…and also deep anxiety. Read along at Tangledwilderness.org

Guest Info

Melissa Ren (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, a Tin House alum, a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, and a senior editor at Augur Magazine. Her writing has appeared or forthcoming in Grain Magazine, Factor Four Magazine, Fusion Fragment, and elsewhere. Find her at linktr.ee/MelissaRen or follow @melisfluous on socials

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

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Summary

This month on Strangers, we have Wax by Henri Feola, a story about disaster, cataclysm, and memory. The word of the month is about speaking loudly, and we have an interview with Henri after the feature. The interview is sadly cut short by technical difficulties, but is still quite enjoyable.

Guest Info

Henri Feola (he/they) is a writer, musician, abolitionist, and mutual aid organizer based in Appalachia. His creative work has been published in Apricity, Thimble Magazine, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others, and his nonfiction articles have been published in American Scientist.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

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Episode Notes

This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that we're Kickstarting. You can get so many deals and cool rewards and stretch goals that have already been unlocked, as long as you're listening to this before March 21st at 9am est. If you're listening after that, then you can probably just go preorder or regular order the book!

Kickstarter Link

Summary

This month on Strangers we have The Dandelion Gatherers: On Italian American Foodways, Anarchism, and Assimilation. This piece is a historical exploration of Italian American foodways, anarchism, and assimilation through folklore, newspaper stories, and accounts of women who gathered dandelions by the roadside.. The word of the month is about everyone's favorite revolutionary musical, besides Newsies. Read along at TangledWilderness.org Or Sign up for our Zine of the Month Club on Patreon.

Guest Info

Wren Awry (they/them) is a writer, food/history/folklore nerd, and the editor of Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protests, and Mutual Aid (PM Press, 2023). They can be found on IG @wrenawry or on Bluesky at @wrenawry.bsky.social

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have a Live Like the World is Dying crossover episode because the feature is a Live Like the World is Dying Skill Series zine. Casandra talks with Aaron, the host of the Propaganda By the Seed podcast about edible perennial plants that you can grow. You can read the zine here or get a free PDF of it at www.Tangledwilderness.org.

Guest Info

Aaron Parker can be found hosting Propaganda by the Seed or at Edgewood Nursery. IG: @Edgewoodnursery or @Propagandabytheseed or at www.Edgewood-Nursery.com

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Episode Summary

This month on Strangers, Inmn talks to Margaret and James about Ready For Anything, which you can read at www.tangledwilderness.org. The zine has a lot of practical advice and checklists for preparing for another Trump presidency and a world that is growing more fascistic each day. Sign up for our monthly features at patron.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. James can be found on Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Summary

We have a special extra episode of Strangers this month. We have an interview with Henri Feola, talking about his zine The Veil Between Worlds is Plexiglass: notes from an incarcerated forest defender. If you want a copy of this zine, go to www.tangledwilderness.org.

About the Zine

On January 18, 2023, Atlanta police murdered Tortuguita, a protester defending the Weelaunee People’s Forest. Three days later, a vigil was held in downtown Atlanta, after which property destruction occurred and two police cars were set on fire. Myself and five others were arrested in the vicinity of the vigil. We all received the same set of charges, including domestic terrorism. All but one of us were denied bail and remained in pretrial detention. The state did not have to provide any evidence of our alleged crimes, or argue the facts of the case, in order to incarcerate us. The broken and overcrowded penal system in Atlanta forced us to wait months to appear in court again and argue for bail; many of our fellow inmates were in the same situation, waiting months or years for court appearances. I was released with a $25,000 bail and orders to leave the state of Georgia on April 26, after 96 days in jail. 

This zine is a lightly edited collection of writing from my time in jail. 

You can visit https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ for more information on the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement.**

Guest Info

Henri Feola (he/they) is a writer, musician, abolitionist, and mutual aid organizer based in Appalachia. His creative work has been published in Apricity, Thimble Magazine, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others, and his nonfiction articles have been published in American Scientist.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have a collection of poems by William Morris, thoughtfully edited by Casandra. The word of the month is far too much ado about urine. You can read along at TangledWilderness.org

Guest Info

Casandra (they/them) is a book designer, occasional host of Live Like the World is Dying, and collective member of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. They love books and hope you're having a lovely day.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have some short stories by Margaret Killjoy, Folk Tales of the Lowlands of Cekon, a set of folk stories set in the world Margaret’s new book The Sapling Cage from Feminist Press. The word of the month is about faeries being sketchy.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy (she/they) can be found on IG @MargaretKilljoy or on twitter @magpiekilljoy. You can find more of her essays on Substack at: margaretkilljoy.substack.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have Refuting the Legend: On the Words and Life of Louis Mercier-Vega. Jame Stout gives us an introduction to the life and words of Louis Mercier Vega, an anarchist writer who fought with the International Group of the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War, along with an English translation of Louis' piece Refuting the Legend from the original in French. The word of the month is about revolutionary foods. Follow along at tangledwilderness.org

Guest Info

James Stout (he/him), PhD, is a Adjunct Professor of World History, journalist, writer, and podcaster. He is the author of The Popular Front and the Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics and an upcoming book on anarchists at war for AK Press as well as the  co-host of It Could Happen Here. He participates in mutual aid work with migrants whenever he can.

Where you can find more from James:

https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout

jamesstout.net

https://x.com/jamesstout

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Episode Summary

This Month on Strangers, we have a special guest interview by Margaret and Casandra with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber to talk about their new book Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. The feature is an abridged transcript of the conversation.

Host Info

Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy.

Guest Info

Shane Burley can be found on Twitter @Shane_Burley1, on Instagram @ShaneBurley, on Mastodon @Shane_Burley, and on Patreon at www.patreon.com/ShaneBurley

Ben Lorber can be found on Twitter @BenLorber8 or on IG @ben.lorber.18

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Summary

This month on Strangers we have a comic, Queer Uprisings by Hazel Newlevant. Queer Uprisings is a comic about some of the acts of group resistance that set the stage for the more-famous Stonewall Uprising in 1969, which we commemorate annually with Pride marches. The word of the month is about forgetting, literally. Follow along at tangledwilderness.org

Guest Info

Hazel Newlevant (they/them) is a cartoonist whose other comics include If This Be Sin, Sugar Town, and No Ivy League. They edited the comics anthologies Chainmail Bikini, Comics for Choice, and most recently Becoming Who We Are.

You can find Hazel at: www.newlevant.com, or on IG @newlevant, or on Twitter @hnewlevant Full Color version of Queer Uprisings: thenib.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have a collection of poetry by Maria Elle. Escape Plan is a collection of poetry that explores what it means to hold the dreams of the future while grappling with the persistent horrors of now, through the lens of love, war, Capitalist-driven climate devastation, anti-Zionist struggles, and the pursuit of a free Palestine. The word of the month is about being connected to the Earth. Follow along at tangledwilderness.org

Guest Info

Maria Elle is a wing nut anarchist Jewish dyke extremist whore anti-Zionist psycho who writes poetry, conspires against the Empire, and organizes for collective liberation. You can find her on IG @Lchiam.Intifada or @bay2gaza

You can learn more about the Freedom Flotilla, the International Solidarity Movement, and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

freedomflotilla.org, palsolidarity.org, and ijan.org

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have “Hurrah for Anarchy: a history of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists” by Margaret Killjoy, which is a short historical article about…May Day. We have no audio feature this month, just an interview with Margaret about the zine. If you want to read the zine, go to Tangled Wilderness.org and check it out for free! The word of the month is about the nature of fear.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy (she/they) can be found on IG @MargaretKilljoy or on twitter @magpiekilljoy. You can find more of her essays on Substack at: margaretkilljoy.substack.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have a short story called With the Dolphins by Bill Stickers. It's a story about the spirit of adventure on the high seas, the false promises of AI, and the inescapability of worker exploitation in late-stage capitalism -- and how solidarity, in all its many forms, can effectively fight it. The word of the month is about the queen of rot. Sort of. Read along for free at tangled wilderness.org.

Guest Info

Bill Stickers is a writer in the Rockies who believes everything to know about them can be found in their art.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have a piece called So Your Cult had a Schism: Why and How to Dig a Tunnel About it by Miriam Roček, which feels pretty self-explanatory. The word of the month is about some critters that also like to make tunnels. Follow along here at tangled wilderness.org.

Guest Info

You can find Miriam here at Strangers.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have the short story A Field, A Shadow, Indeed a Shadow, by Margaret Killjoy. Two teenagers discover what it means to wander the woods, the night, and to take action in all of the small ways that feel big to save their forest from destruction and to answer the call to adventure. The word of the month is a word that's supposed to be mean but holds great power. Can you guess what it is? Follow along here at tangled wilderness.org.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy (she/they) can be found on IG @MargaretKilljoy or on twitter @magpiekilljoy. This essay and more can be found on Substack at: margaretkilljoy.substack.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month we have Death of a Murder, a short story set in a not-too-distant bio-tech, sci-fi future about radicals waging a revolution against the Unifers who control the world we know now and how fighting in a revolution is never simple. The word of a month is also about the future...and birds.

Guest Info

Vicky Osterweil is a writer, worker and agitator living in Philadelphia. Her book In Defense of Looting came out in 2020 with Bold Type Books. You can find her at https://vickyosterweil.substack.com/ and her book In Defense of Looting is out with AK Press here.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month we have St. Lucy: An Anti-Hagiography by Wren Awry. It's coming out a little early because St. Lucy's day is on December 13th. Inmn and Wren talk a lot about folklore, history, and why saints are kinda cool sometimes. The word of the month is about the unsurprising synchronicity of names. Read along at TangledWilderness.org

Guest Info

Wren Awry can be found on IG @wrenawry

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have part two of Blood, Soil, and Frozen TV Dinners by Matthew Dougal. Afterwards we have an interview with Matthew about writing about prepping. The words of the month is about the end of things. Next month we have a piece by Wren Awry about St. Lucy. Find the text here.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have part one of Blood, Soil, and Frozen TV Dinners by Matthew Dougal. There's no interview this month. Instead we have a much longer Word of the Month about the surprisingly cool origins of a seasonal and eerie tradition. Next month we have the conclusion to Blood, Soil, and Frozen TV Dinners along with an interview with the author.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers we have "Anarchism and Its Misunderstanders" by Margaret Killjoy as well as an interview with her about the essay. The word of the month is the surprising meaning of a monster's name.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy (she/they) can be found on IG @MargaretKilljoy or on twitter @magpiekilljoy. This essay and more can be found on Substack at: margaretkilljoy.substack.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have a short story by Ivey Wexler called First Tracks. It's a delightful slice-of-life story about life after the collapse...and skiing. After the story, Inmn and Ivey talk about writing, science fiction, and names. The word of the month this month is about the surprising origin of a common fear.

Guest Info

Ivey (she/they or any) cannot be found elsewhere really. However, you can find them on an episode of Coffee With Comrades.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Our Kickstarter for Penumbra City can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery or co-hosting Live Like the World is Dying.

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have a guest interviewer. Shane Burley interviews Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer about their book "With Freedom in our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism."

Guest Info

Shane Burley (he/him) is an author and filmmaker. He is the editor of No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis. Twitter: @shane_burley1 IG: @ShaneBurley

Kenyon Zimmer (he/him) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. You can find him at https://kenyonzimmer.com/

Anna Elena Torres is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature. You can find Anna at https://complit.uchicago.edu/faculty/torres

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Our Kickstarter for Penumbra City can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The Reader is Bea Flowers. You can find them here.

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

Summary

This month on Strangers, we have an essay from Ami Weintraub's new book To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living titled "Releasing the Land." After the essay, Ami and Inmn talk about Ami's book, writing magical realism, ghosts, and trees. The words of the month have an eerie synchronicity. Preorder To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living at www.tangledwilderness.org/shop/p/to-the-ghosts-who-are-still-living Regular release is August 1st.

Guest Info

Ami Weintraub (he/they) is a Jewish anarchist writer and Rabbinic student whose work and community organizing focus on building a world without domination where people can freely connect to their cultures, lands, and bodies. They have contributed to a number of publications including Tikkun, Jewish Currents, and New Jewish Voices, are the founder and former director of Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance, and are studying to become a Rabbi in the Aleph Rabbinic Ordination Program. Ami can be found at www.amiweintraub.com

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Our Kickstarter for Penumbra City can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The Reader is Bea Flowers. You can find them here.

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

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 right now! Unless it’s no longer June 2023. So, before you listen to this recording go to:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Join a Doggirl, an Occultust, a Rat King, and a Patchworker as they investigate a string of disappearances including someone’s missing date.

Find your friends. Kill the God King.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy: World Designer. On Twitter @magpiekilljoy or IG @MargaretKilljoy Jamie Loftus: Host of Ghost Church. On Twitter @JamieLoftusHELP of IG @JamieChristSuperstar Bea Flowers: The Voice of Penumbra City. On IG @Crimebrulee Robin Savage: Game Ilustrator on IG @Missrobinsavage Inmn Neruin: Game Designer on IG @shadowtail.artificery

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Our Kickstarter for Penumbra City can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

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 and their other work can be found at https://riotmedicine.net/

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Our Kickstarter for Penumbra City can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/penumbra-city/penumbra-city

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The Reader is Bea Flowers. You can find them here.

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

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 might be your name.

Guest Info

Molly B'Damn (She/her) can be found on Instagram @Molly.BDamn

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The Reader is Bea Flowers. You can find them here.

Reader

The reader is Bea Flowers. It can be found at https://www.voices.com/profile/beaflowers

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @MagpieKilljoy.

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 of the month might be about scavenging for food, or getting into fights.

Guest Info

The guest is George Morbidelli (He/Him). George can be found on twitter @Agit_hop and you can listen to his old podcast Ransom Notes on the Channel Zero Network

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The Reader is Bea Flowers. You can find them here.

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilloy.

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 history of the Avengers. It features songs from Hirsh Glick, Shmerke Kaczerginski and Rikle Glazer. Aurora preforms her versions of Zog Nit Keymol, Shtil Di Nakht, and Barikadn. The zine contains a written version of S'iz Geven A Zumertog. You can find a pdf of the zine at Tangledwilderness.org and follow along in English or Yiddish. The zine contains bios of the composers as well as a general history of the Vilna Ghetto. Our zine version is heavily abridged from a larger version that Aurora self-published.

Guest Info

Aurora (she/her) cannot be found on the internet. However, if you would like the full version of Lidlekh, you can email her at viridaea@gmail.com.

The songs were adapted and preformed by Aurora.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekillNotes go here

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 golden opportunity: any one who felt like they were owed a free woman could move to a remote island and be given one.

The offer was, of course, a trap.

The party is made up of a charming Volcel, the Liver King meets Andrew Tate, a trapped failed murder-tourist, a cultist of Dagon, and a humanitarian trying to bring the word of Christ to the island, respectively. The party finds themselves in the dungeon of the King of the Incels, but they have heard there’s a recently abandoned oil tanker off the coast, near the Volcel encampment, but some special forces units have also been trapped on the island and they are making a dash for the oil tanker as well.

Guest Info

Margaret Killjoy: Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff: Twitter @magpiekilljoy. Robert Evans: Host of Behind the Bastards and It could Happen Here. Twitter: @IwriteOK Shereen Lani Younes: Host of Ethnically Ambiguous. Twitter: @sheerohero666 Gare Davis: Host on It Could Happen Here. Twitter: @hungrybowtie James Stout: Host on It Could Happen Here. Twitter: @jamesstout

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

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 published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Next Episode

Jan. 31st: A play through of Inmn's RPG "Escape from Incel Island", played with Margaret Killjoy, and some other podcasters.

Episode Notes

Summary A 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 journalism to poetry, and fiction. She also likes to sew clothes and make textile art and teaches both writing and textile creation. You can find Kelly at Text&Textiles or on Instagram @kellyrosecreates. You can find Kelly's full length poetry collection The Hammer of Witches at Dagger Editions from Caitlin Press.

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Next Episode

December 31st: Why the Wind Howls by Alex Di

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 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

Publisher

This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme Music

The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Next Episode

November 30th: "Why Sheep Might Save Your Life One Day" by Kelly Rose Phlug-Back

Episode Notes

Summary Explore 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 on our website www.tangledwilderness.org.

Guest Info The author can be found on Instagram or Twitter @CindyMilstein.

Publisher This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Next Episode October 31st: A comic by Io Ascarium.

Episode Notes

Summary Explore 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 Info The story was written by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy.

You can find more Penumbra art by Robin on Instagram @PenumbraCity or find Penumbra CIty on Twitter @WorldofHarrow. For playtest info email Penumbra.city.playtest@gmail.com.

Publisher This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

Host The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Reader The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

Theme music The theme song was written and performed by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Next Episode September 30th: An excerpt from "Try Anarchism for Life" by Cindy Milstein.

Episode Notes

Summary How things could have been different for the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War if they made friends with dinosaurs...

Guest Info Izzy 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/

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

Host The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music and interview is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

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: The author is Sevi Xcetera. Sevi is a trans non-binary, multi-media artist and plant enthusiast currently residing in the south west on Tohono O’odham land. Sevi is a youth poetry and art teacher, and a student of ceramics and glass. Sevi just released their first chapbook, Wash Sea Out of Hair and Drive. The self-published version includes photographic accompaniments. Their zine and other info about Sevi can be found here at this link https://sevisevi.wixsite.com/blooms Or by emailing them at sevi.xcetera@gmail.com

Reader: The reader is CJ Kitten Miller. She can be found on Instagram @cjkittenmiller, or @leomoondance and @dimberband for dance and music.

Our Guest review is by The Reverent Marigold and can be found on Instagram @Reverent_Marigold or Youtube and Spotify at the same name.

Host: The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme: The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her on twitter @magpiekilljoy

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.com/

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

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 spotify, twitter, or bandcamp at https://bellahangnail.bandcamp.com/

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

Episode Notes

Strangers In A Tangled WIlderness can be found at here or on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon.

Celeste Inez Mathilda is an artist, writer, and plant dweeb. They can be found at Etsy: liminalspacesshop.etsy.com Instagram @liminal.spaces.shop or their Patreon page: patreon.com/liminalspaces

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her here.

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness 3: Dandelion

Inmn Neruin:

Hello and welcome to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness...the podcast. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use They/them pronouns . Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history, podcasts...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in.

On this podcast we have audio versions of our monthly featured zine read by a brilliant voice actor along with interviews with the author. If you would like to hold in your hands a hard copy of our monthly feature, please consider subscribing to our Patreon where you will be mailed a lovely zine once a month along with other occasional other remedies. Our Patreon helps make things like this podcast possible as well as supporting other podcasts we put out like Live Like The World Is Dying. It also helps us pay authors of the monthly features, transcribers, artists, editors and translators. So if you like what you hear, please consider subscribing at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you would like to submit a piece that you think would cure our need for entertainment, please visit Tangledwilderness.org for our submission guidelines!

This month, we do not have an audio recording of the monthly feature. Instead we bring to you an in-depth interview with Celeste Inez Mathilda of Liminal Spaces about their zine Taraxcum Officianale: Dandelion: Break the Binary. We talk a lot about plants, uses of Dandlions and Celeste’s views on plants and forming relationships with them. If you would like to read the zine and aren’t a Patreon subscriber, a digital version can be found for free on our website at http://tangledwilderness.org. I had so much fun talking to Celeste about plants. Also this was my first real interview as the interviewer so you can delight in me being awkward. There’s so much information in the zine that we don’t have time to cover. So please check out the zine and Celeste’s lovely accompanying artwork out on our website. 

Inmn Neruin: That was Celeste Inez Mathilda on dandelions and forming relationships with plants. If you enjoyed the zine on Dandelions, Celeste has an entire series of similar style zines for plants including Wild Rose, Stinging Nettle, and Echinacea. You can find them all on Celeste’s Etsy shop  liminalspacesshop.etsy.com. You can also find Celeste on instagram @liminal.spaces.shop or their Patreon page: patreon.com/liminalspaces If you want a hard copy of the dandelions zine you can also find it in their shop. And if you do visit those places, you will also get to see that Celeste is a wonderful print maker and makes cool patches.      Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast please go tell someone about it. Whisper its name in their ear, put it on on a road trip, write a review and plant it in the ground, bind its name to a dandelion puff before blowing its seeds to the winds, wondering what strange fruit it may bear. If you would like to support us as well as the authors, translators, editors and artists that we work with please consider subscribing to our Patreon. Subscribers receive at different levels: access to digital copies of our archived zines and features, digital copies of new work, Patreon-only content, discounts of printed work and monthly printed copies of our featured zine mailed to you along with whatever else we feel like that month. You can find us at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness or check out our website for more free content, including blogposts, zines, books, games, comics, how-to guides and other works we have to distribute. We can be found at TangledWilderness.org or check us out on twitter @Tangledwild. And as always, if you don’t want to or can’t contribute financially please rate and review us, and tell a friend. We like having friends. You do incredible things that we are endlessly marveled by. We would especially like to thank these friends: Mikki, Nicole, David, Dana, Chelsea, Micaiah, Staro, Jenipher, Eleanor, Natalie, Kirk, Hugh, Nora, Sam, Chris, and Hoss the dog for making this podcast and so many other projects possible. If you feel like a stranger that would like to find their story a home in this tangled wilderness consider submitting it; the pages are hungry. Next month, we bring to you “Exclusion,” a short story by Bella Hangnail, an exploration of trauma and nuclear fallout. Stay well. We hope you come back.

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Episode Notes

Strangers In A Tangled WIlderness can be found at here or on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon.

A more reader friendly copy of the story can be found at https://www.tangledwilderness.org/featured/the-great-armored-train Along with amazing art by Robin Savage.

This story appeared in Nick Mamatas's collection The People's Republic of Everything, published in 2018 by Tachyon Publications.

About the author: Nick Mamatas is the author of seven novels, including Love is the Law, I Am Providence, and the forthcoming Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist; his books include the Bram Stoker Award winner Haunted Legends (co-edited with Ellen Datlow), the Locus Award nominees The Future is Japanese and Hanzai Japan (both co-edited with Masumi Washington), and Mixed Up (co-edited with Molly Tanzer). His fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and International Horror Guild Awards. Mamatas lives in Oakland, California.

About the interviewer: Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author and editor currently based in the Appalachian mountains. Her most recent book is an anarchist demon hunters novella called The Barrow Will Send What it May, published by Tor.com. She spends her time crafting and complaining about authoritarian power structures and she blogs at birdsbeforethestorm.net.

The theme music is also by Margaret Killjoy.

Show art is by Robin Savage

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

<pre> **Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness 2: The Great Armored Train by Nick Mamatas** </pre>

Inmn Neruin: Hello and welcome to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness...the podcast. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use They/them pronouns . Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history, podcasts...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in. On this podcast we have audio versions of our monthly featured zine read by a brilliant voice actor along with interviews with the author. If you would like to hold in your hands a hard copy of our monthly feature, please consider subscribing to our Patreon where you will be mailed a lovely zine once a month along with other occasional trinkets to add to your horde. Our Patreon helps make things like this podcast possible as well as supporting other podcasts we put out like Live Like The World Is Dying. It also helps us pay authors of the monthly features, transcribers, artists, editors and translators. So if you like what you hear, please consider subscribing at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you would like to submit a piece that you think would shine nicely in our little dragon horde, please visit Tangledwilderness.org for our submission guidelines! This month, we are kind of cheating…We bring to you a previously recorded episode of the now on-hold podcast We Will Remember Freedom. In this re-print episode, one of our collaborators, Margaret Killjoy talks with Nick Mamatas about his short story The Great Armored Train. We feel this story is more relevant than usual considering Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine. This story pits Trotsky’s giant armored train against polish folk magic. I really loved this story mostly because it’s simple and I love learning about magic within resistance movements, but I also appreciate a good critique of State Communism. Much like State Communism  paraded this idea of liberating the people, while building a power base for a new oppressive state, Putin claims to be trying to save Ukraine from itself, going so far as to parade that idea that he hopes to de-nazify it. A facist claiming to free people from other fascists. Seems sketchy.  And much like during the  reign of the Bolsheviks or the quarrels of any nation states, the common people are usually who suffer most and are used as pawns. But as in this story, resistance can be…phantasmal and there have always been echos of stateless worlds, tremors of a bell rung long ago, now ever ringing, “Land to the Peasants” as the  Black Army emblazoned on their battle standards as they fought for a free-territory in Ukraine almost exactly one century ago in conflicts with Bolsheviks and Monarchists. Our hearts go out to the Anarchists and anti-authoritarians organizing in  Ukraine and Russia right now, and those of you fighting on the frontlines, organizing evacuations, refugees and medical support, for those who stayed and for those who fled and of course for those who fell. We hope the fantasy and comedy of this story can offer some levity and hope within this ongoing conflict, and those exactly like it happening all over the world, and hope if people can empathize with Ukrainian people right now they can see the similarities between this conflict and those in places like Palestine, Syria, and Rojava to name a few. So remember, sharpen your talons, listen for the echos, and keep fighting. 

*For a print version of the story please visit http://tangledwild.org *

Inmn Neruin:

<pre> That was Margaret talking to Nick Mamatas about “The Great Armored Train.” Please check out the online version for this story as well as other content at [http://tangledwild.org](http://tangledwild.org). You can even see some amazing artwork done for the story by our artist Robin Savage. I’ve heard many stories of Ukrainian women offering sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers, so that when they die at least something beautiful and useful will grow. I hope so much to hear stories in the future of seeds that spontaneously burst to life inside tanks, consuming them and rendering them useless except as homes to wayward critters.  If you would like to learn more about this conflict in Ukraine and those like it, check out our friends at the Final Straw Radio at [https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/](https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/) for interviews with Ukrainian Anarchists, as well as our friends at [http://Crimethinc.com/](http://crimethinc.com/) for histories and interviews with Russian and Ukrainian Leftists, Anarchists and anti-authoritarians. If you would like to support anarchists and anti-authoritarians in Ukraine right now check out a link tree for Ukranian mutual aid group Operation Solidarity at [https://linktr.ee/operation.solidarity](https://linktr.ee/operation.solidarity) and an Anarchist armed detachment The Black Headquarter at [https://linktr.ee/Theblackheadquarter](https://linktr.ee/Theblackheadquarter) </pre>

Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast please go tell someone about it. Whisper it in their ear, put it on at work, write a review and feed it to the ocean, cry its name to the gloaming daring an owl to answer. If you would like to support us as well as the authors, translators, editors and artists that we work with please consider subscribing to our Patreon. Subscribers receive at different levels: access to digital copies of our archived zines and features, digital copies of new work, Patreon-only content, discounts of printed work and monthly printed copies of our featured zine mailed to you along with whatever else we feel like that month. You can find us at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness or check out our website for more free content, including blogposts, zines, books, games, comics, how-to guides and other works we have to distribute. We can be found at TangledWilderness.org or check us out on twitter @Tangledwild. And as always, if you don’t want to or can’t contribute financially please rate and review us, and tell a friend. We like having friends. You do incredible things that we are endlessly marveled by. We would especially like to thank these friends: Mikki, Nicole, David, Dana, Chelsea, Micaiah, Staro, Jenipher, Eleanor, Natalie, Kirk, Hugh, Nora, Sam, Chris, and Hoss the dog for making this podcast and so many other projects possible. If you feel like a stranger that would like to find their story a home in this tangled wilderness consider submitting it; the pages are thirsty. 

<pre> Next month, we bring to you something a little bit different. I will be talking with Celeste Inez Mathilda of Liminal Spaces about their zine “Taraxacum Officinale: Dandelion. Break the Binary. Migration is Beautiful” as well their views on the ethics of wildcrafting. Stay Well. We hope you come back. </pre>

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