Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.