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📢 Introducing: the AK Press Fall 2025 season! These titles will all be releasing between now and the end of March. We've been hard at work on this season and can't wait for you to read these books. You can find them & preorder at: www.akpress.org/forthcoming-...
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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social

Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“You’re a human being. Don’t treat yrself as disposable—that’s the logic of the deathmakers. Make yourself whole. You don’t just deserve healing & joy; you need those things. We need you here, on earth, in yr community, where you belong.” prismreports.org/2025/11/03/s... @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
‘Solidarity is always the way forward’
In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists
prismreports.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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My book came!!!! Couldn't have picked a better time. I'm completely exhausted after this morning. ICE showed up in LA, but so did we. Fuck ICE!

And what a sweet letter from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Thank you!
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I was interviewed for @convergencemag.com's Block and Build podcast about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
Listen to This When Things Fall Apart w/ Kelly Hayes
Creating the kinds of support we need to stay in the struggle, with Kelly Hayes.
convergencemag.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Here it is at our home, with EP acting as a prop! Looking forward to reading it!
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Join us on the 138th anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs by the state of Illinois as we mark the return to print of THE FAMOUS SPEECHES OF THE EIGHT CHICAGO ANARCHISTS, edited by Lucy Parsons & with a new intro by David Roediger. @akpress.org pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48765
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
OUT TODAY 💫

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 edited by
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social is an essential book for organizers & activists in times of crisis and struggle.

Get the book, e-book, or audiobook now—and DL the reading guide too! www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Happy pub day to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @akpress.org and everyone who inspired this beautiful and heartfelt offering. May it provide solace, clarity, and guidance in these truly scary and unprecedented times.

I’m honored to have contributed a piece on grief, my great teacher and friend.
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Happy pub day! A book for our times and beyond. Get a copy for yourself and 2 for others who might need it.
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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‘Solidarity is always the way forward’: In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, abolitionist organizer @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (pub. Nov. 4 by @akpress.org) featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, & activists.
‘Solidarity is always the way forward’
In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists
prismreports.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Distro Highlight✨
New from our friend and comrade, Dana Williams, comes
Who Do We Trust?: Power, Solidarity, and Anti-Authoritarianism published by @plutopress.bsky.social

Order a copy today from AKPress.org!
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This book arrived at the perfect time. And since I ordered it from @akpress.org, it comes with an additional letter from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social herself.

www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Lovely books, from Friends of @akpress.org subscription & the Dog Section Press crowdfunding, in the mail today!
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Feminisms
👉 www.dogsection.org/product/femi...
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Zaragoza Bound
👉 akpress.org/zaragoza-bound.html
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Read This When Things Fall Apart
👉 akpress.org/read-this-when-things-fall-apart.html
October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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"We can talk about best practices, like we can ask people to mask as a matter of safety, and remind people this will help prevent doxing for everyone. This will help make it harder to isolate people, and it will make it easier for people to responsibly capture images of the event." 🫂🫂🫂
- Kelly Hayes
STARTING SOON!

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 virtual book launch with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social starts at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT.

Stream here: www.youtube.com/live/4m0kUkt...
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
YouTube video by AK Press
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October 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
STARTING SOON!

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 virtual book launch with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social starts at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT.

Stream here: www.youtube.com/live/4m0kUkt...
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
YouTube video by AK Press
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October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Find us ONLINE today! And LIVE and in person, THIS WEEKEND Nov 1-2 at @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social in Cambridge, MA! 📚🥳
Tonight!

We are hosting an online event with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social editor of the forthcoming @akpress.org book ‘Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis.’

7:00 to 8:30pm (EST).

Register at: tinyurl.com/KellyHayesBABF
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist
Climate Activist Mikaela Loach: Name Hurricanes After Fossil Fuel Firms
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not ...
www.democracynow.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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We designed a beautiful calendar to fundraise for Sojourners for Justice Press. Pre-orders end on Nov 16 so get yours soon. sojourners4justice.press/calendar/ - It will only be available through pre-orders cuz we're too broke to print it otherwise, lol.
Sojourners for Justice Press
sojourners4justice.press
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I was interviewed by @reemasabrina.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart. "Fight for what is sacred to you. And if you don’t know what’s sacred to you yet, I suggest you get out there, amongst other people fighting the good fight, and I suspect you’ll find it."
A care package for activists in crisis - Chicago Reader
Read This When Things Fall Apart, edited by Kelly Hayes, features letters offering hope and advice for activist in crisis.
chicagoreader.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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LIVE NOW!

Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with @shaneburley.bsky.social, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner as they discuss the launch of Read this When Things Fall Apart. Organized with @akpress.org.

Stream:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrpI...
Read this When Things Fall Apart
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We’re one week away from the Read This When Things Fall Apart release! Tune into the @haymarketbooks.org virtual event tonight, the @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social event tomorrow, and the events coming up in November! 🎉 Chicago will have not one but two in-person launch events 🎉🎉
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This is today at 4 pm CT!
Tomorrow, we have the first virtual launch event for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I will be in conversation with my friends @shaneburley.bsky.social, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena Danner. Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Aw thanks @akpress.org!! 🩷🩷🩷
Distro Highlight✨
Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out by @kittystryker.bsky.social and from Thornapple Press

Order your copy at AKPress.org!
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM