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Eleven Stars over Andalusia

 by Mahmoud Darwish | CLPP mini: ungovernable

ungovernable exile decolonization poetry

Winter 1992

an everyday archive of time stolen back

by kimi malka hanauer | CLPP mini: ungovernable

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2025

On Mahmoud Darwish

 by Edward Said | CLPP mini: ungovernable

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

Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France's Colonial Crimes

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay | CLPP mini: Threats to Order

ungovernable anarchy decolonization

2021
the book cover of 'discourse on colonialism' by Aime Cesaire. a portrait of Aime Cesaire as a single color black print appears on an orange cover. Aime carries books, wears a black coat overtop a button up shirt with a tie and looks serious as he stairs off to the right. the title of the book, 'discourse on colonialism' is written in white letters overtop of the black print.

Discourse on Colonialism

by Aime Cesaire | CLPP mini: Grammars of Determination

cooperative anarchy decolonization

1950
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 Alphabet of Dispossession

by Ella Shohat, published in the Jerusalem Quarterly | CLPP mini: Grammars of Determination

decolonization stories exile

Summer 2007

SPK: Turn Illness into a Weapon

 by the Socialist Patients' Collective, translated by Huber (SPK/PF)

disability justice abolition access

1987

Becoming Ungovernable: A Reassesment

 by Nikita Shepard | CLPP mini: ungovernable

ungovernable abolition autonomy

2018

Theory as Liberatory Practice

by bell hooks

black feminism movement theory

1991

Now

 by the Invisible Committee | CLPP mini: ungovernable

anarchy cooperative rage

2017

BLOG: "Pebbles" t-shirt fundraiser for Kearra Amaya Gopee's autonomous artist residency

blog

October 15, 2024
A high contrast black and white photo of a lit hand holding a protest sign that reads “Never again for anyone” with a watermelon and accompanying butterflies is printed on muted pink paper. This sign is held in front of a tree trunk in the midst of a protest march.

PROJECT: Graphics for Palestinian Liberation

decolonization rage movement

Fall 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: 25 New Summer Open Call Resources

blog

October, 2024
A fuschia drawing of the warp and weft of a disintegrating weave curls with flowered vines. “Center for liberatory practices” “weaving our values and practices” is draped and tangled with the same flowered vines and reads above and below the centered weaving.

PUBLICATION: Weaving our Values & Practices

PDF

Online

co-published with March Journal

publication cooperative movement queer

2022

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

 by Vicky Osterweil

autonomy ungovernable abolition

2022
Adults dance and play together in pairs in a workshop. The image centers one person twirling another in a room lit by a strings of lights.

WORKSHOP: scaffolding / becoming / autonomies / ungovernable

 with X-TRA, Active Cultures and Printed Matter

publication abolition anarchy experiments

2023
Bulbous cutouts of a photo of ceremony objects including “bless our breath” cards, tangerines, glasses of water, herbs, an open book and a mortar and pestle sit on a black background. Rounded cuttings of the title Archive Liberia, Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry are overlaid on the photos and black background. A large white title reads “Used of Memory Saturday, October 28 4:00-5:30 PM EST Virtual with small vertically oriented along a sliver of the ritual object photo reads “Teaching at the End of Times.”

WORKSHOP: Uses of Memory

 with Archive Liberia

project cooperative decolonization memory poetry

2023
a hand drawn illustration of seeds scattered. soft dotted grey shading appears inside each seed, some are clumped together toward the center, while others stray a bit farther around the edges.

BLOG: Contribute to the Resource Library!

blog

June, 2024
Several people’s hands travel to write and draw across quietly lit chart paper. A pile of transparent pink notes slip under one of the participant’s wrists while an opaque pink note grazes the tip of another participant's hand bracing as they mark the chart paper.

GATHERING: Weekend for Collective Being and Making

 a semi-annual gathering of Weavers and friends of the Center

gathering cooperative experiments governance

2023
A playful internet browser screen tab gradienting between bright orange, purple and yellow pops between the titles “creative projects,” “introduction” and “about.” It features contributors names across the bottom punctuated by repeating graphic purple flowers.

PUBLICATION: Straining Letters into Noise

 with Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Graphic Design

project cooperative speech stories

2021-2022
this is the book cover of 'black scare / red scare'. in the top half of the image is a graphic image in black, red, and yellow forms that show a person staring downwards and frowning. on an off white background below, the book title is written in all capital letters in black and red.

Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

by Charisse Burden-Stelly

cooperative anarchy abolition

2023
the book cover of 'Return to My Native Land' featured a woodblock portrait of a person looking to the right of the page. The portrait is printed in yellow ink on a black background.

Return to my Native Land

by Amie Cesaire

decolonization poetry diasporic

1956
the book cover of 'Necro-Politics' by Achille Mbembe features the title of the book in bold all capital letters on a grey, textured page. The title is written in bold white letters and underneath it, the author's name is written in dark red letters.

Necro–Politics

by Achille Mbembe

decolonization theory

2016

Organization Means Commitment

by Grace Lee Boggs

cooperative movement governance

1972

Immaculate Constellation: Congressional Report

 by Matthew Brown | CLPP mini: uap / nhi

ungovernable decolonization

2025

The US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are Withholding Information about Anomalous Phenomena

 by Michael Shellenberger | CLPP mini: uap / nhi

ungovernable decolonization

2023