With thanks to Ombre Tarragnat for expanding the conversation, and to NeuroConvergences for holding space for these vital, unfolding dialogues…and Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw who coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how systems of oppression overlap to create … Continue reading
Contemplating the Five Elements: A Global Earth Day Meditation Journey On April 19th, 2026, I had the privilege of participating in a 90-minute Five Elements Contemplation meditation as part of the 24 Hours of Mindfulness Earth Day celebration initiated by … Continue reading
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The first Contemplation of Nature Zoom session with Ajay Rastogi and Paul Erhard took place on Saturday, 21st March 2026, on International Forest Day. 76 people gathered across geographies to sit together; not in a forest, but to contemplate nature … Continue reading
Along side our tiny zine-making factory, we’re opening up a small space to share and celebrate independent zines of all kinds and in all languages. If you’d like to have your zine featured, we’d love to hear from you, please … Continue reading
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Autonomous Zine Factory presents The Autonomous Zine Atlas! Zines have always moved through informal infrastructures. A zine library might exist in the back room of a bookshop or a community centre. A distro might operate out of someone’s living room … Continue reading
Most of us spend our days surrounded by screens, walls, notifications, and noise. Yet just outside the door there is another world quietly continuing; clouds drifting, leaves moving, water reflecting the sky. Just spending some time shifting your awareness to … Continue reading
An Activist’s Kitchen, Food & Stories from Across the World. An Activist’s Kitchen is a podcast and zine that gathers decolonial vegan recipes, food memories, and generational kitchen-wisdom from across the globe. This project, run in collaboration with ecologist Ajay … Continue reading
There is a particular kind of censorship that has kicked in the last couple of years that doesn’t announce itself like the good old fashioned Insta-jail. No warnings. No policy violations. No community standard reminders. Just a sudden irritating kind … Continue reading
Here is a quick list of some more ethical tech alternatives to Google, Microsoft and Spotify. This list is beginner-friendly, open-source, privacy-focused, non-corporate and as decolonial-aligned as possible. Search Engines DuckDuckGo Startpage SearXNG Mojeek Office Suites and Document Tools CryptPad … Continue reading
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In production A Quiet Sun is an experimental short documentary film (approximately 30-40 minutes) that explores themes of immigration, diaspora, disabled grief and joy, isolation, and life on the margins. The work centres on mindful, joyful resilience and the subtle … Continue reading
Recognising cycles of oppression with the help of Paulo Freire (and each other) -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽–⎻⎺⎺⎻- I am writing to you because my voice is broken It is hard to speak But I hear you through the airwaves -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽–⎻⎺⎺⎻- I write this … Continue reading
I recently met someone else who also has a cPTSD diagnosis and we started to talk about how shockingly textbook our common human struggles are. We spoke about how childhood formulates patterns, and how a person can spend a lifetime … Continue reading
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These notes are a response to the beautiful text Eating clay is not an eating disorder, by Zayaan Khan. We are all connected. I can feel your heart through the rice paper of a White Rabbit candy and the silkiness … Continue reading
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A chef stands outside the Israeli embassy in Tokyo shouting “Stop Genocide!” He goes back every week on his day off. A man on the southern of coast of Sweden collects plastic from the beach. He goes on holiday once … Continue reading
Zines, in their current form, emerged from science fiction fan magazines (fanzines) in the 1930s, says Google: which is always whitewashing everything. The term “fanzine,” it says, was first used by sci-fi fans to describe and discuss their self-published works. … Continue reading