Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY), February 2025  

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We’re delighed to launch our next Resource Library Open Call as part of our 2025 publishing series, Ungovernable Study. 🌿

Contribute by March 15 ︎︎︎

Our Resource Library gathers an open-ended collection of educational materials focused on cultivating life-sustaining collective practices despite, against, and in the cracks of empire. To initiate our 2025 publishing series, Ungovernable Study, we welcome contributions that broadly respond to (or negate) the project’s themes to our Resource Library on a rolling basis, with the first deadline for contributions on March 15th. 

In the library, you might find theoretical texts alongside resources for mutual aid, poetry, how-to guides, and other materials that emerge through the conditions and encounters of everyday life. Materials do not have to fit neatly into these definitions: artworks, poetry, songs, recipes, and other materials that expand the understanding of what a 'resource' can be are especially encouraged!

We’re delighted to finally be able to expand our digital library into printed form and are planning spring and summer pop-ups at various sites, including parks, bookstores, art and community spaces. The first of these activations will take place as a reading room and nimble publishing studio at the Printed Matter (printedmatter.org) bookstore this spring. 

As always, projects we facilitate which take place with nonprofit partners aim to redirect resources toward the building of autonomous networks of support beyond the nonprofit industrial complex. Contributors are invited to opt-in to share their materials as part of future IRL pop-ups and/or limit the sharing of their works in accordance with their needs.

We will be uploading submissions into the digital library as we receive them. We are a nimble team and appreciate your patience as we do our best to respond to questions and messages in a timely manner! <3 

Introducing Ungovernable Study

How does ungovernability manifest in quiet, discrete, soft, intimate, and unruly moments of negation in the everyday spaces of our lives? What do collective acts of non-cooperation have to offer long-term movement- and organization-building? How could ungovernability as a vision for collective life without imperial rule shape our daily existence as governed subjects? Ungovernable Study, a new publication series that will unravel throughout 2025, engages the possibilities of ungovernability as divergent modes of being, feeling, making, and unmaking that inherently undermine the imperial world order. Through publishing conversations, artistic research, and facilitating spaces of study, the project surfaces seemingly contradictory yet interwoven threads of ungovernability. It weaves together learnings that evolve through collective processes of building and sustaining networks of collective care that imperial and colonial regimes were never designed to provide, alongside manifold personal reflections on actions and inactions that antagonize, disorder, refuse, and unveil the violence embedded in so-called “law and order.” Across a series of independent activations and partnerships, Ungovernable Study aims to take account of the embodied underpinnings of collective life-sustaining practices and efforts at building popular power presently taking shape within the imperial core.

Ungovernable Study is edited by CLPP Steward kimi malka hanauer and produced with CLPP Assistant Editor, Anna Cho-Son. Please stay tuned for more information on this series as it slowly emerges this year! If you’d like to get involved with the project, please email us at liberatorypractice@gmail.com to initiate the discussion ~ we’re happy to move into Signal or other encrypted methods of communication as needed. 

Contribution Details

Original works as well as submissions of your favorite works (with permission from the author(s) & publisher) are welcome. Any materials submitted must either already be freely available through open-access or creative commons licensees and networks; have permission from the author and publisher to be shared; be publicly available on the web; or be yours to share and distribute. All materials included in the library are for educational purposes only. 

As we work to expand our library into printed form, we’re excited to create printed iterations of your work and/or welcome your contributions by mail all throughout March. Please mail submissions to:

CLPP / kimi malka hanauer
43-40 34th Street, Floor 2
Long Island City, NY 11101 

Ultimately, the cacophony of materials which are gathered here attempt to extend and sharpen the values which undergird this work. When thinking through your contribution, you are encouraged to read our 2022 publication that offers a set of conversations on the emergence of the Center and the ethical boundaries this work is guided by: 

Weaving Values and Practices ︎︎︎ 

For further context, you are also invited to explore our existing library collection and last summer’s open call contributions: 

Resource Library ︎︎︎ 

2024 Summer Open Call ︎︎︎

To contribute any digital and/or printed materials, please use the link below. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to email us directly at: liberatorypractice@gmail.com.

Contribute Materials ︎︎︎

Thank you for being here and we can’t wait to spend time with your work!
~ CLPP Team