Hello world! This is Roan (Tyrone). It’s been four years since we’ve posted anything here, but I’ve been reflecting on Enough because I was recently interviewed by Sarah Mirk on Bitch’s Popaganda podcast about this project, and about talking about money and giving away money and my “money feelings” and a little bit about what’s happened in my life since I last made any updates here. Continue reading “2017: Reflections on Enough”
Second Round Call for Submissions!
We created the website Enough in 2008 in response to a yearning for discussion about radical approaches to day-to-day decisions about money and resource sharing. Enough has been a space where people have shared their stories, questions, and strategies about what it means to practice a politics of wealth redistribution and anti-capitalism in their day-to-day lives while existing and surviving within capitalism. We are currently in the process of compiling additional essays to be published in book form.
Enough: The Book! (call for submissions)
Okay, people, get ready: we are making Enough into a book! We’re looking for lots of new essays, so please get in touch if you are interested in submitting something.
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Call for submissions: zine about nonprofits and radical social transformation
Perhaps you already know of this wonderful-sounding zine project, but I thought I would re-post this call for submissions I received:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Walking the Talk (tentative title) zine/book project exploring power and exploitation in nonprofit organizations, alignment of our work with our vision, and what role nonprofits have in radical social transformation.
* SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1st 2011 *
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Moving.
I had such a wonderful almost-spring day today, running errands on foot and having many of the kinds of incidental social interactions that come from living in a small neighborhood. I walked several blocks chatting with a friend who I ran into on my way to my eye doctor appointment, ran into another friend in the co-op and arranged a massage trade for next week, got hollers from two separate friends on two separate trolleys passing me as I walked, had an in-depth conversation with another friend who was cashiering during my second visit to the co-op. This is what West Philly is like.
Stories from readers
Alright, I know we always promise to post more and then don’t. It’s sad. That’s why you should all be like Zeph, and write to us with your stories, thoughts, critiques, responses, brilliant analyses, etc, so that we can post them on the site.
Zeph writes:
Zeph’s story
by Zeph Fishlyn
I’m a mid-forties white genderqueer person born and raised in Montreal and raised again as an adult queerdo in the Mission District in San Francisco. I came from an owning-class Canadian WASP family. I can thank them for good teeth and education and vacation opportunities and also for legacies of silence, repression and anger. In 1987 I landed in San Francisco desperate for connection and found it among all the small-town escapees, queers from every quarter who had managed to walk-crawl-run to a city where they could find others like themselves.
In defiance of all that splits us
Do you know Aurora Levins Morales? She is a much beloved writer, historian, poet, and activist. I first read her writing in This Bridge Called My Back (now shockingly out of print), and lately I’ve been reading her blog, where she writes about disability and chronic illness, imperialism, poetry, capitalism – read this post about her experience returning to the U.S. after some months in Cuba receiving medical treatment:
Grassroots fundraising and the joys of worker co-ops
Hello dear Enough readers! So many things to write about, so little time in life, you know what I mean? As I was lying in bed last night making lists in my head of all the things I want to write for Enough, I realized I should say something about these two amazing conferences I was at last month during a typically whirlwindy (though still filled with beautiful nature trips) Bay Area visit.
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Link city
Hello! Did anyone else feel a little demolished by Detroit? Amazing but exhausting. But I underwent a transformation at the U.S. Social Forum (at first I thought it was just regular emotional meltdown, but now I’m reconceptualizing it as transformation in honor of the USSF), a result of not eating or sleeping enough, doing too much, and extending myself far beyond my limits. The nonstop intensity was punctuated by moments of deep awe and inspiration, and since coming home I’ve been thinking so much about care and healing and community-building and how important they are as tools for movements. I was confronted with some important truths about my body’s capacity, in a space where I also got to be amazed by incredible organizers and healers and workshops about trauma, somatics, healing justice, accessibility and disability justice, and building communities of support and care. Exposure to all that amazingness can change a person! I’m landing back home committed to prioritizing those things even more, both in my life and my organizing. And not in a lip service-y way – in a real way. Continue reading “Link city”