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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Elia J. Ayoub and is reveals the realities Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover

Elia J. Ayoub is a UK-based Palestinian-Lebanese writer and researcher whose work focuses on authoritarianism, hauntings, and alternative futurities. He holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich on postwar Lebanon and an MA on the politics of Hebrew and Yiddish. He is the co-founder of From The Periphery media collective which includes his podcast The Fire These Times. He can be found on Bluesky, and he runs the Hauntologies.net newsletter.

• Get to know your neighbours. As Minneapolis has been showing us, getting to know your neighbours is one of the most effective ways to keep each other safe. Unless there’s a safety-related reason for not doing so, I recommend getting at least to a first name basis. Dropping a postcard during the holidays or baking something small and cute and offering it to them goes a long way too. 
• Read the Reform document in detail and spread the word. Make sure to associate Reform to Project 2025, ICE and Trump. We need to get rid of their “outsiders to the status quo” status and associate them to a brutal and fascist project that is already playing out catastrophically in the US. Reform wants to paint itself as he most British party, and we can instead make sure they are permanently tied to Trump.
• From an electoral standpoint, we need to think of the best tactic to keep Reform out of power, permanently. Tactical voting might be needed. I’m not an expert on this, but I think a reasonable way forward would be to maximise the influence of the Green party of England and Wales (and their progressive equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales) while working on pressuring Labour to abandon Starmerite cowardice and appeasement of the Far Right. I don’t pretend to know how, but other people probably do, and we can’t afford to wait and find out what a prime minister Nigel Farage would do.

Learn from Minneapolis. Read: 

• From Minneapolis: I’ve Never Seen Unity Like This (Margaret Killjoy) 
• “Dispatch, Please Advise!” (Red-Winged Blackbird collective)
• Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities (Crimethinc) 
• Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti (Crimethinc)
• I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping (Nicole Bedera)
• ICE vs. Everyone (Erin West)
• Welcome to the American Winter (Robert F. Worth) 
• The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE (Michael Gregory) 
• Lies and Lawlessness (Timothy Snyder) 
• State Terror Has Arrived (Masha Gessen) and The Battle for Minneapolis (Emily Witt).

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled 6 self-love ideas to remember from the late Black feminist, bell hooks

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

What can you do?

• Listen to the podcast: “All About Love: New Visions” by bell hooks from Black Feminist & Bookish 
• Read the blog post: “Poems from bell hooks, ‘When Angels Speak of Love”
• Read the book: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
• Read more articles by shado editor, Addis Fouché HERE

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled How I Navigate Dating with Herpes

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

Additional resources:

• “Dating App Revenue and Usage Statistics (2021).” Business of Apps, 10 Mar. 2021
• “STD Facts – Genital Herpes.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 28 Aug. 2017, 

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled A case in defence of the side chick

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

• Listen to the How To Hold Men Accountable Podcast
• Watch The Tragic Story of the Man-Child
• Read Revolting Prostitutes by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
• Read shado’s Body Dialogues series which explores topics relating to sexuality, reproductive justice, pleasure etc
• Read more articles by Addis HERE

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled Why I stopped faking orgasms, especially with men.

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

• Read Mind the Gap by Karen Gurney
• Check out Salty World: “Demisexuals Get Horny Too, You Know”
• Read Psychology Today: “What Science Has Discovered About The Female Orgasm”
• Watch Melinda DeSeta Video: “How To Give Your Partner A G-Spot Orgasm
• Listen to the podcast Sex Talks
• Follow The Triple Cripples, the group highlighting the sexual narratives of Black and POC living with disabilities

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled Understanding consent through sex work as a rape survivor.

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled It’s Complicated: Dating as a Sex Worker

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

• Read the book: The Ethical Slut
• Donate to the Sex Workers Outreach Project
• Read more articles by Addis HERE

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Addis Fouché and is titled The life lessons that I discovered from being a whore.

Addis Fouché is a 29 year old Black queer woman, native New Yorker, distance runner, commercial model, adult performer, freelance writer, startup founder, and public speaker. As a multi-hyphenate, Addis' mission is to create the content that she wishes she could have seen at a younger age: which de-stigmatizes topics like sex, sobriety, race, sexuality, and gender. She doesn't shy away from exploring any subject within the realm of taboo topics, in fact she dives head first into dissecting why we are the way we are. Follow Addis on Instagram @addisfouche

• To Learn More About Sex Workers and Whorephobia, Donate to SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project)
• Podcast and YouTube Channel: WHOREible decision
• Sex Positive and STI De-Stigmatizing Account on IG: @safe.slut
• Read Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Luisa De la Concha Montes and reminds us of the power of Resistance amongst the threat of demolition

Luisa De la Concha Montes is a visual artist, photographer and writer born and raised in Mexico City. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2017 and now resides in London. She holds an MA from the University of Sussex in Photography. Her work attempts to bring shapeless states, such as grief, diaspora, identity and memory into a physical form through documentary photography, digital explorations and visual poetry. Instagram: @erst.while Twitter: @L_D_C_M Website: https://iiconclash.wordpress.com/

• Follow @fight4aylesbury on Instagram to learn about the project’s latest developments
• Donate to Aysen’s crowdfunding campaign
• Read Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London by Paul Watt to learn more about the policies behind London’s state-led gentrification project
• Join housing struggle associations such as Homes for All, Defend Council Housing or Why Demolish?
• Read this article by Leah Cowan: What is the Hostile Environment?
• Read more articles on the topic of migration HERE

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Aileen Angsutorn Lees and teaches us How the language and ideals of white environmentalism reinforce fascist narratives.

Aileen (she/her) is a writer, photographer and activist based in Scotland. Passionate about dismantling narratives of dominating and extracting nature, she set up the project Decolonising The Outdoors and organises community events @decolonisingtheoutdoors

Do: 

• Support intersectional environmental organisations lobbying government and industry for climate justice, such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace
• Find out more about Pesticide Action Network UK

Read:

• Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee 
• How Have the Forests of “Israel” Swallowed Our Unpopulated Land?
• Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plantsby Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Other shado articles on decolonisation, climate justice, indigenous movements and Palestine

Listen: 

• shado-lite’s podcast episode on settler colonialism in historic Palestine
• The Botanical Mind podcast episode on the coloniality of planting

Watch: 

• Foragers (2022), a Palestinian documentary which interrogates settler colonial power and narratives of conservation

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