Second Circuit examines how we resist authoritarianism while building the parallel structures that will outlast it.
Drawing on frameworks from Václav Havel's artist-dissidents and Gandhi's Constructive Program, I write about political theory and international relations, socialist anti-authoritarian thought, art as world-building (not just protest), neurodivergence and hierarchy, attention to nature as a way of life, and the truth-telling and reconciliation processes we'll need when this regime falls.
Occasional updates on my feminist fantasy novel about an autistic druid, books I'm reading, publishing industry critiques, and things that matter.