Episode Notes

In this episode, Albert and Christina talk about moving away from dependency on corporate tech platforms to more values-aligned alternatives, as a way to build resistance muscles and remember our own agency. We share our personal stories, friction points, and possibilities for de-enshittification.

Show Notes:

• Cory Doctorow on 'enshittification' (original article)
• Anarchist calisthenics
• "The convenience you demanded is now mandatory" (meme)
• YK Hong's series on "De-Googling Your Life"
• Step-by-step checklist from Opt Out Project to do your own cyber cleanse in a less overwhelming way
• Tech platform alternatives from progressivetech.org
• "Off the Grid" podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients
• Darius Kazemi's Spreadsheet Generator "Gen Gen"
• Books mentioned: Dougald Hines's book At Work in the Ruins, Peter Block's The Answer to How is Yes
• Email Debt Forgiveness Day (March 31st!)
• Kill the Newsletter: creates an RSS reed for your email newsletters

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Christina and Albert answer a friend's question: "I was wondering if you could point me to any good resources for learning about how community land trusts work."

Notes, Links, & Resources:

• Jessica Gordon Nembhard's book Collective Courage
• Sustainable Economy Law Center, and their work around Permanent Real Estate Cooperatives (PRECs)
  • Resources to Rethink Home
  • Online Legal Cafés
  • EBPREC
• Article: "Are we diluting the mission of Community Land Trusts?"
• NASCO (resources for starting coop houses)
• (not mentioned in episode, but the book Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian)

If you have questions for us about radical housing alternatives like cooperatives or community land trusts, please email them to us at [email protected], and we'll do our best to answer in future episodes!

In this episode, Albert and Christina discuss revolutionary congregations, mutual aid in the aftermath of the LA wildfires in Jan 2025, and other spaces where people can show up as their whole selves.

Shownote Links

• Crimethinc's call for Festivals of Resistance in the lead-up to Trump's inauguration
• "Revolutionary Congregation" by Jeremy Souza (email albert for the PDF lol)
• Mutual Aid LA Network
• The Lavender Collective (their 1-pager bottom liner basics)
• Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Block-Build-Be framework (an inspiring adaptation from Wildseed Society)
• Ayni Institute's Movement Ecology framework
• Authors we reference: Kropotkin, David Graeber, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mariame Kaba

In this episode, Christina, Aranea, and artist-in-residence Lulu look for anything to help us when we are feeling adrift in our creative process.