Disruptnow.org

Disruptnow.org is about thinking and practicing social struggle as disruption. It contains material from past and present struggles that sought liberation not through the movement of society but in disrupting its order and operation.

This site sees disruption as one way of bridging struggles that have become increasingly isolated from one another. Disruption is as old as human domination and has been developed, adopted, and adapted by nearly every struggle seeking reprieve or freedom. The site tries to draw out these disruptive connections in order to recover their shared history.

Rather than organize by struggle, the site looks at disruption through different lenses: how struggles have sought to disrupt society (Tactics of Disruption); where they disrupted (Disrupted Spaces); what needed disrupting (Defining the Enemy); as well as the disruptive subjects (Subjectivities of Refusal) and temporalities (Time Interrupted) that emerge from it.

So take a look around, explore, and add at your desire. We have much to learn from each other

DISRUPTIVE SPACES

HISTORY/ THEORY

TACTICS OF DISRUPTION

SUBJECTS OF REFUSAL

DEFINING THE ENEMY

TIME INTERRUPTED

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    Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union

    AMMAR (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina), the Argentinean sex workers’ union, has used a strategy of “affective organizing.” Drawing on a participatory project developed with and involving sex worker…

    Sonthonax Abolition of Slavery (1794)

    In the face of British invasion and rampant slave uprising, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax took the risk of abolishing slavery in his region of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), which began a snowball reaction and abolish…

    ¡Si me permiten hablar! (Let me speak!) 1977

    Written by Domitila Barrios De Chungara, the exploitation within Bolivian mines is revealed as well as the subsequent female-led protests against inequitable capitalist accumulation.

    “Ain’t I A Woman” (1851)

    “Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say,” outside of the fact that we can’t afford to ignore the dual burden of sexism and racism on Black women.

    Retreat of the State in the English-Speaking Caribbean: Impacts on Women & Their Responses

    Structural adjustment policies in Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago disproportionately harmed women, slashing healthcare, education, and jobs while increasing their unpaid domestic burdens. In response, women mobi…

    The Liberator’s Salutation (1831)

    The Liberator served as on of the most influential newspapers of the abolitionist movement, and in this “Salutation” by William Lloyd Garrison, we see the outline and intended success for the publication.

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