Cindy Milstein (they) / is on Nostr

Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel.  Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others.
Labors of love: creating books, doing care + grief care, curating magical do-it-ourselves + ritual spaces, people. 🖤❤️🌿  @cindymilstein on IG cbmilstein.wordpress.com #Anarchism #JewishAnarchism #Mazeldon #QueerAsFuck #AnarchaFeminism #Solidarity #MutualAid #CollectiveCare #ArtOfResistance #PrefigurativePolitics #RebelliousMourning #ACAB #EverythingForEveryone #UntilAllAreFree

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2024-09-09 16:26:33

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@npub138a…4vyh I just read it—and love it! And am now sharing it with some other folks I think would love it too. 🖤🩷🙌🏼

2024-03-07 21:28:11

Support the “AVL 4” Appalachians against Pipelines!
On March 4, four of our Asheville, NC, friends were arrested along with three other people after being aggressively chased by police through the woods of Poor Mountain in West Virginia. Only one of these seven has been bailed out so far, with others hopefully released soon—but all with hefty bond amounts and legal expenses ahead. That same day on that mountain, two other people locked themselves to an immobilized car and shut down Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) work for eleven hours.
The repression against MVP resistance has continued to escalate of late. In recent months, local and Indigenous pipeline resisters have been charged with felonies, hit with egregious civil lawsuits, and faced months of jail time for protesting the devastation of this delicate ecosystem. If completed, the MVP will contaminate sensitive water sources for poor communities across West Virginia and Virginia, perpetuating a legacy of resource extraction and disregard for human and nonhuman life in Appalachia.
Our AVL buddies need your support! Let’s shower them with love and solidarity!
DONATE to the Appalachian Legal Defense Fund: bit.ly/applegaldefense
#NoMVP #StopMVP #NoPipelines #FTP #SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon
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2023-08-16 02:49:25

There were so many sweet, tender, and moving moments at this past weekend’s @npub1dh3…saec—not to mention silly, inspiring, and connective ones (like the best and most wholesome kind of anarchist family reunions), among so many other dreamy descriptors—that it’s hard to narrow down examples, much less narrow down my gratitude to the organizers, tablers, presenters, and really everyone who converged at this bookfair.
But a highlight for me was the beautiful space made for not only honoring but also remembering and being vulnerably real about our grief—that is, sharing the whole of ourselves and life, with its abundance of joys and sorrows, wins and losses. There were three workshops related to mourning, ritual, dying, and death. There was an altar specifically built for the bookfair by an anarchist gravedigger and casket maker, and people added flowers, notes, art, photos, and herbal grief potions to it over the three days (see pictures 3 and 4).
And there was the friend from Durham, NC, who brought the banner pictured here, which they entrusted to me on the sixth anniversary of Charlottesville on August 12, and which @firestormcoop then let me hang in a prominent place of visibility and honor—over the area in the bookstore used for speakers during the bookfair. Six years ago, the banner was painted soon after Heather Heyer was murdered, and so many others were deeply injured and forever scarred, by fascists during the Unite the Right rally in Cville. It then was originally hung from the stone base of the first Confederate monument that folks tore down in NC, and later, on the one-year anniversary of that monument falling, it was hung up again—this time as part of an altar with names and flowers and candies around it, and folks read the names of people killed by the police in Durham.
The banner now has a home at Firestorm, as daily reminder that “we struggle in memory of all we’ve lost to white supremacy and fascism.” To my mind, all anarchist spaces should routinely make such room for the #ArtOfRemembrance, #RebelliousMourning, and #MendingTheWorld—which is about mending our own rebel hearts too.
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