We recently spoke with Asa Martinez: writer, immigration-support worker, and creator of Brushfire Press - a small-scale zine press and information distro centered on QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color).  Their message is Fight Back: Read Radical, published out of Pittsburgh, PA.   Their recent work has focused on mutual aid, immigrant rights, and harm reduction.

Asa is our friend and ally.  In 2020 we commissioned Brushfire Press to dream up a project with a small amount of funding we had available, and what was born is the ongoing, growing Pittsburgh Solidarity Guide.  This Solidarity Guide was created as a directory of groups that center the most marginalized among us and work to make Pittsburgh a more livable city for all. 

What follows is an open, honest, and extremely urgent conversation between all of us.  Asa speaks truth in each breath and it was a great treasure to have them in conversation.

Here are just a few of the many amazing things we touched on that we wanted to include in the show notes:

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