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RESOURCE LIBRARY

MATERIALS
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Launching 25 New Open Call Resources

ungovernable open call

July 2025

State of Siege

 by Mahmoud Darwish | Ungovernable Study

poetry grief exile

2002

PROJECT: Ungovernable Study

autonomy ungovernable decolonization

Spring 2025

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

 by Vicky Osterweil | Ungovernable Study

autonomy ungovernable abolition

2022

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

 by James C. Scott | Ungovernable Study

autonomy ungovernable abolition

2009

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

 by Audre Lorde with a new forward by Sonia Sanchez | Ungovernable Study

black feminism ungovernable abolition

1988 / 2017

Now

 by the Invisible Committee | Ungovernable Study

anarchy cooperative rage

2017

The Commitment to Craft

 by Lora Mathis | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable care poetry

20xx

Organization Means Commitment

by Grace Lee Boggs | Ungovernable Study

cooperative movement governance

1972

Becoming Ungovernable: A Reassesment

 by Nikita Shepard | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable abolition autonomy

2018

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

 by Noam Chomsky | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable theory anarchy

1991 / 1997

Middle Passages

 by Kamau Brathwaite | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable poetry movement

1992
photo of a pile of mown grass at the edge of a parking lot. the lot and pile are backed by a brick wall.

Discontinuities of Use

 by Singer Joy | Ungovernable: Open Call

ungovernable anarchy poetry

Spring 2025

Sick Comrade: Poster Series 24'

by sick comrade | Ungovernable: Open Call

ungovernable disability justice queer sickness

2024

Weltdämmerung

 by Auden Tura and Ella Spitzer-Stephan | Ungovernable: Open Call

ungovernable experiments ghosts access

2024
Title: [The Fashion Humanism Book Club] in monospace font, followed by "Book Club" in large cursive font. Subtitle: [previously] on fashion theory, [currently] on internet + culture + post-capitalist theory Two black and white images of book covers: Book 1 is the cover of "Scorched Earth" by Jonathan Crary, Book 2 is the cover of "Raving" by McKenzie Wark Text below images: #season-04, winter mini reading season, dec. 2023 — feb. 2024

The FASHION HUMANISM Book Club: Winter 2024 Zine

 by The Fashion Humanism Book Club | Ungovernable: Open Call

ungovernable queer intimacy

Spring 2025

Pleasure as Resistance: a Manifesto

 by The Pleasure Doms | Ungovernable: Open Call

pleasure resistance

Spring 2025

The Jakarta Method

by Vincent Bevins | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable resistance

2020

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

by David Graeber | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable resistance anarchy

2004

The Black Unicorn

 by Audre Lorde | Ungovernable Study

poetry breath Black feminism

1978

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965

 by Kelly Lytle Hernández | Ungovernable Study

anarchy decolonization abolition

2017

Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance

 by bell hooks, published in Black Looks: Race and Representation | Ungovernable Study

Black feminism decolonization abolition

1992

Ecology of Fear: the Case for Letting Malibu Burn

 by Mike Davis | Ungovernable Study

degrowth decolonization abolition

1998

bcubico

 by Ж | Ungovernable: Open Call

autonomy cooperative theory

2023

Social War

 song by Dani DANI YOUR DARLING, distro'd by @nofuturedistr0, video by Des | Ungovernable: Open Call

anarchy cooperative theory

2023

Bumbai, We Learn: Issue 01

 by Akasha Rabut, Isaac Maluhia Castillo, Christine Santos | Ungovernable: Open Call

diasporic coalition governance

2024

WE REMIND YOU: HIV + PALESTINE

 by WHAT WOULD AN HIV DOULA DO? | Ungovernable: Open Call

care coalition cooperation

2022

HIV IS NOT A METAPHOR

 by WHAT WOULD AN HIV DOULA DO? | Ungovernable: Open Call

care coalition cooperation

2021

WHAT DOES AN UPRISING DOULA DO?

 by WHAT WOULD AN HIV DOULA DO? | Ungovernable: Open Call

care coalition cooperation

2021

GATHERING Zine: Abortions, Shame and Community Care

 by Amaryllis Ara | Ungovernable: Open Call

autonomy care rage

2022

Beautiful Machine Woman Language

 by Catherine Chen and Noemi Press | Ungovernable: Open Call

poetry intimacy ungovernable

2023
The cover is half dark-blue with the title - ᎠᎦᎾᏬᏍᎦ (it's getting warmer) - and author's name (aleksander aleksander) on the upper half. On the lower half are vines from artwork by William Morris.

ᎠᎦᎾᏬᏍᎦ (it’s getting warmer)

 by aleksander aleksander | Ungovernable: Open Call

decolonization memory movement

2025

In the Wake: on Blackness and Being

 by Christina Sharpe

decolonization abolition ungovernable

2016

I Want Nobody for President

 by unknown | based on Zoe Leonard's "I Want a President" | Ungovernable Study

decolonization abolition ungovernable

2016/17

The Soveignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

 by Kevin Quashie | Ungovernable Study

decolonization abolition ungovernable

2012

Total Care

 by giorgia sage | Ungovernable: Open Call

poetry care stories

2024

The Modern/Colonial Food System in a Paradigm of War

 by Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo and Haleh Zandi | Ungovernable: Open Call

autonomy abolition degrowth

2011

Rave Nationalism

 by Dream Scroll | Ungovernable: Open Call

queer experiments theory ungovernable

2024

Carnation Zine: Vol. 3 (Fire)

 by Carnation Zine | Ungovernable: Open Call

diasporic decolonization resistance ungovernable

2024

The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions

 Text by Larry Mitchell and drawings by Ned Asta, republished by Nightboat Books | Ungovernable Study

queer stories governance

1977

The Nation on No Map

 by William C. Anderson | Ungovernable Study

ungovernable abolition anarchy

2021

quick burn crip rage syllabus

PDF

PPT

by Alx Velozo | Ungovernable Study

disability justice rage autonomy

2025

Why and How to Refuse to Pay for War

 by National War Tax Resistance Coordination Committee | Ungovernable Study

degrowth rage autonomy

202x

Political Prisoners in Palestine: Their Life and Struggle

 by Learsi Links; issued by the Palestine Labour Defense | Ungovernable Study

decolonization abolition ungovernable

1936

Strategies to Escape the Eyes of the State

 by Gervais Marsh | Ungovernable Study

movement autonomy black feminism ungovernable

2020

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Zine Library

 by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine | Ungovernable Study

decolonization autonomy ungovernable

2020
three brown sheets of paper are stacked over a neon green graphic background. centered on the brown pages is crooked white text that reads, "ungovernable study / resource library open call / submit by march 15" in smaller text below, it says "center for liberatory practice & poetry" a brown frame surrounds the image.

BLOG: Ungovernable Study Resource Library Open Call

cooperative ungovernable decolonization

February 19

The Blackstone Rangers

 by Gwendolyn Brooks; an excerpt from "Blacks" published by Third World Press | Ungovernable Study

anarchy autonomy black feminism ungovernable

1987

The View from 1947: The CIA and the Partition of Palestine

 by Thomas W. Lippman; published by Middle East Journal

anarchy autonomy ungovernable

Winter 2007

Eleven Stars over Andalusia

 by Mahmoud Darwish | CLPP mini: Andalusia's after-ending

ungovernable exile decolonization poetry

Winter 1992

an everyday archive of time stolen back

by kimi malka hanauer | CLPP mini: Andalusia's after-ending

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2025

On Mahmoud Darwish

 by Edward Said | CLPP mini: Andalusia's after-ending

ungovernable exile decolonization poetry

Winter 1994

The idea of a borderless world

by Achille Mbembe | CLPP mini: Threats to Order

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2017

an open letter to those who condemn looting

by Evan Calder Williams | CLPP mini: Threats to Order

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2011

We Have Not Forgotten France's Colonial Crimes: A Letter to Benjamin Stora

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay | CLPP mini: Threats to Order

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2021

The Waiting Room

by Simone Leigh | CLPP mini: Memory, Mourning, Militancy

care speech disability justice

2018

While Standing in Line for Death

by CAConrad | CLPP mini: Memory, Mourning, Militancy

anarchy poetry queer

2017

Memory Work and Militancy: Performing Feminist Diasporic Remembrance at a Distance

 by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian | CLPP mini: Memory, Mourning, Militancy

cooperative memory diasporic

2020