"Radical ideas and action in the South-West"
Fkit Mag is a new project from the South West of the WISE isles, combining original art and design, poetry, and theoretical and practical pieces from local activists. We include news and action reports, critical reflections, fiction, and autobiographical writing. Most of the articles are short-form, and we encourage submissions to be readable for a non-academic and non-activist audience.
Our approach is inspired by the photocopied zines and news-sheets of the 1980s and 1990s and the DIY- and punk ethics and aesthetics. If your writing emerges from an anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression and revolutionary framework, we're interested in reading it and probably keen to publish it. We intend Fkit to be cheap, accessible, and easily passed around. It's about talking to each other and building a scene, not getting every word and picture perfect.
The zine is 24 A4 pages in black and white. It's edited by a two-person team associated with Exeter Radical Learning, who you can find on instagram here (instagram.com/radical_learning_exe). We're currently in the process of getting a website up and running. In the meantime, you can email us with submissions, complaints, and ideas here (email:anarchistlearningexe@proton.me).
Issue 4 "Futures of Resistance"
The texts included here interrogate ‘futures of resistance’ in a variety of ways. The initial poem, To Love This Country, does this by asking what it might mean to live in a country we could love, and who we would have to empower to make that future possible? Meanwhile, Ocelot’s Social Media and Software Licences encourages people to leave big tech social media platforms behind and to use alternative media instead. The short piece Battling Self-Hatred has a strong emotional charge, calling for a future shaped by fantasy, as well as by pragmatism. It’s raw and personal and unfinished and its powerful because of that. The Radical Army Knife poster is intended to suggest a feeling of how different groups – including ones not yet theorised – contribute to a collective movement. @blue.corporeality’s drawings of protestors and police illustrate the importance of supporting Palestine and knowing how to engage with demonstrations, whether in London or elsewhere. Their ambiguity captures the particular uncertainty of the future in the face of the government’s ban.
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