For Episode 67, we spoke with activist and writer William C. Anderson about racism, electoral politics, DEI backlash, anarchism's relation to socialism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin, and the Black radical tradition.

William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian, MTV, British Journal of Photography, Logic(s) Magazine, and Prism, where he’s a monthly columnist. He is the author of The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014).

Links:

https://bsky.app/profile/williamcson.bsky.social

https://williamcanderson.info/

https://offshootjournal.org/

https://blackautonomy.libsyn.com/

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:09:29 Distinctly Black Anarchism

00:19:21 Political Education

00:25:24 Representation

00:37:02 The Lead-up to Fascism

00:42:49 Ethnonationalism

00:49:42 Online Leftist Posturing

00:56:37 Marx's Influence

01:08:31 Meet the Ervins

01:14:39 Lightning Round Plus

01:35:56 Media Recommendations

01:39:01 Outro

Thanks for listening!

Please like, comment, subscribe, and share!

---

If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia

Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on:

Bluesky bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social

Mastodon kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia

As well as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X/Twitter.

Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via:

mastodon.social/@LucyStag

bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social

x.com/LucyStag

lucysteigerwald.substack.com/