One of my 2026 priorities is to join & support community convos & book clubs focused on what ideas, experiments & questions shared in #PracticingNewWorlds about critical connections, communities of practice & networks of influence might offer in this time. Reach out if you want to invite me to one!

Some of the most generative grounded rigorous & inspired conversations I've had since Nov 2024 have been w/ people who've been reading #PracticingNewWorlds together - from @prisonculture.bsky.social's class to @davidkaib.bsky.social & @upendmovement.org's book clubs...1/3 bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds

I mentioned #PracticingNewWorlds at last night’s @socialismconference.org panel on the state - you can get it from @haymarketbooks.org if you are at #Socialism25 OR at 30% off from @akpress.org.

More info on the book at bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds

Panel lives here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ud7...

We can reach toward the world we long for by using every day as a practice ground in which we generate new possibilities that can proliferate and ultimately reshape our world. @dreanyc123.bsky.social

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We can examine the ways we engage with ourselves and each other. We can ask ourselves if our behavior is rooted in punishment, exile, and abandonment or if it offers invitations and creates possibilities to transform individual and collective conditions. @dreanyc123.bsky.social
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And I’m down to come join the conversation, time permitting!

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Last year I had an enlivening conversation about #PracticingNewWorlds w/ @amitaswadhin.bsky.social & Mirror Memoirs & hope to join the good folks @upendmovement.org who are are reading it in April.

If you are reading #PracticingNewWorlds w/ others I will happily join a convo about it if I am able!

Tonight I dropped in on @cobaltadvocates.bsky.social's book club on #PracticingNewWorlds.

It was such a joy & balm to be in conversation about the worlds we dream of & how we can practice them right here, right now.

We don't need to wait for anyone's permission - we just need to act in alignment

Oh wow thanks for letting me know I had no idea the #PracticingNewWorlds audiobook was out already! So glad it is offering something of use in this moment.

If you want grounding and fortifying poetry get @atenaoyadi.bsky.social ‘s Incantations for Rest!!!

Tomorrow is also the last day to order Olly Costello’s gorgeous poster inspired by #PracticingNewWorlds to fuel your resistance in 2025!

Proceeds benefit Creative Interventions, LetUsBreathe Collective, APIChaya & Queer the Land

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Blue hardcover notebook with art featuring mushrooms and the words Practicing New Worlds

Dark grey tank top with art featuring a sun, green vines and purple butterflies circling the words Practicing New Worlds

Tote bag with image of a Sun, green vines and purple butterflies winding their way around the words Practicing New Worlds

Image of a Black woman and brown-skinned woman weaving luminescent green vines into a path lined with mushrooms along which a group of humans are moving toward mountains on the horizon and a rising sun.

The #PracticingNewWorlds merch store @interruptcrim.bsky.social is closing tomorrow (12/31) for good!

Last chance to get Ts, totes, notebooks & cover art poster to inspire dreaming, resistance & practicing new worlds in 2025 AND support orgs in the book! interrupting-criminalization.myshopify.com

Text from the book Practicing New Worlds against a dark background surrounded by plants and mushrooms.

More offerings from #PracticingNewWorlds to meet this moment…

Today is the last day to download #PracticingNewWorlds & more great books for free from AK Press! www.akpress.org/featured-pro...

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Messages for this moment from #PracticingNewWorlds

#PracticingNewWorlds is an imperfect offering for this moment...and sharing some passages that resonated while reading it aloud in the days following the election on this 🧵

Find excerpts, interviews & recordings of conversations focused on resisting fascism & genocide at bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds

A picture of a very light skinned Black woman with curly hair wearing a blue shirt and jacket in a recording booth lit in purple light with a giant mic and an iPad in front of her.

A picture of the screen of the iPad reflecting purple lights with the following words on the screen. "Another world is necessary, another world is possible, another world has already started." - Grace Lee Boggs "Systems and structures dominate. But as human beings we have choices. As individuals those choices are limited. But collectively our choices add up to a force." Fahd Ahmed, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)

Recording for the #PracticingNewWorlds audio book wrapped up earlier this month - look for it early in the new year!

In the meantime, download a FREE copy of the e-book from AK Press through the end of the month

Discussion guide, excerpts & event recordings, merch +++: bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds

Closing this thread with this beautiful #ComradeCard from @ladyofsardines.bsky.social quoting Monica Trinidad from #PracticingNewWorlds

Imagine a world without prisons, police, and borders.

Then imagine what you can do to make that happen.

Then try it.

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

After a year of escalating & expanding genocidal violence, repression of resistance & climate collapse we are in danger of debilitating despair.

We need constant reminders that we have the capacity to shape change.

How have you been #PracticingNewWorlds in the past year? Share below!

Find video from the virtual launch w/ adrienne marie brown
& Alexis Pauline Gumbs, live launch w/ Complex Movements, links to IG lives w/ Prentis Hemphill, Kassandra Frederique, Walidah Imarisha + & merch benefiting groups #PracticingNewWorlds including this gorgeous poster at bit.ly/PracticingNe...

Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies Register now for Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on October 25, 2023, 07:30 PM EDT.

In honor of #O22 the National Day of Action to Stop Police Brutality #StopCopNation, the Charis Bookstore #PracticingNewWorlds event w/
@micahh.bsky.social & @kamaufranklin.bsky.social
talking about deploying emergent strategies to #StopCopCity & #FreePalestine
www.crowdcast.io/c/practicing...

Along the same lines, a conversation hosted by Firestorm Books with @shaneburley.bsky.social

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#PracticingNewWorlds, Firestorm Books is a mutual aid hub for the Asheville, NC community in the wake of #HurricaneHelene.

Please contribute: www.patreon.com/firestormcoop

As we face down an election that is a product of decades of decentralized Right wing organizing, I am grateful to @praeyesright.bsky.social for publishing an interview & excerpt of #PracticingNewWorlds on resisting fascism.
politicalresearch.org/2024/02/14/p...
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Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23) Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and h

I am so grateful to @deathpanel.bsky.social for our conversation about #PracticingNewWorlds & what we do when appealing to governments, politicians, courts, & international bodies fail us & for sharing excerpts & gathering reflections from comrades in Rafah & beyond
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Listen to the Podcast: One Million Experiments Listen to episodes from the One Million Experiments Podcast, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

Another favorite conversation abt #PracticingNewWorlds w/ @interruptcrim.bsky.social's Eva Nagao & AirGo Radio on #1MExperiments podcast focusing on resistance to genocide, anti-apartheid divestment movements & abolitionist experiments as antidotes to despair.

millionexperiments.com/podcast/seas...

"We Need to Resist and Dismantle Through Decentralized Formations" "Decentralization doesn’t mean an absence of a shared politic, connection, or coordination," writes Andrea J. Ritchie.

I am also grateful to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for including an excerpt from #PracticingNewWorlds on decentralized organizing in the US & Global South her essential newsletter, Organizing My Thoughts.

Subscribe & support if you haven't already!
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Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse “Our survival is at stake,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie.

One of my favorite conversations was w/ @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about decentralized organizing, direct action, the world we build in our relationships & #PracticingNewWorlds in times of collapse on #MovementMemos by @truthout.bsky.social, an essential podcast.
truthout.org/audio/practi...

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Starting with this ever relevant clip of Palestinian organizer Ryah Aqel speaking at the #PracticingNewWorlds launch in Detroit calling for absolute refusal & total disruption of occupation, extermination & exile of Palestinians & of hopelessness & powerlessness.

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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition & Emergent Strategies — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world ...

My hope was that #PracticingNewWorlds would be a useful offering for this moment & those to come.

For a discussion guide, excerpts, artwork, merch & convos with organizers, please visit bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds.
I'll be sharing some of my favorites below - please share yours!