Part 1 of 2. Interview with a revolutionary communist person who identifies as neutrois and trans masculine (transmasc). We talk about their move from Chicago to Houston, their work in Chicago with gang members, and their work in Houston with the transmasculine community. We also discuss their political beliefs in revolutionary communism, the anarchist concept of unschooling, their work with gang members, some big protests they've been involved in (e.g. Kenosha, Standing Rock), having different roles in protest movements (e.g. frontline protestors, medics, legal support, people who are armed for self defense), state surveillance and violence, neo-nazi organizing and violence (e.g. Proud Boys), their conflicts with other Leftist organizers, and how we should interrogate certain concepts like "coming out". I really learned a lot in this interview!

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Links to topics in part 1of this interview.

Neutrois (from wikipedia)

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrois

Neutrois (from neutrois.com)

https://www.neutrois.com/?fbclid=IwAR0q8lqKCi_bksRYM9lw3E-dRPg4IKnLpgVTiDnNXycz0WqoZTeefP5pygM

Revolutionary Communist Party USA wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party,_USA

Revolutionary Communist Party USA homepage

https://revcom.us/en

War Resisters League

https://www.warresisters.org/

Annise Parker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker

Friedrich Engels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels

Dakota Access Pipeline protests #nodapl

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/514988040/key-moments-in-the-dakota-access-pipeline-fight

"Standing Rock: A case study in civil disobedience" from the American Bar Association

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/gpsolo/publications/gp_solo/2018/may-june/standing-rock-case-study-civil-disobedience/

"Documenting hate: Charlottesville" from PBS

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-charlottesville/

"Torch-carrying white nationalists indicted in 2017 Charlottesville rally" from PBS News Hour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/torch-carrying-white-nationalists-indicted-in-2017-charlottesville-rally

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

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In this project, I interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

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