political framing and theory
Political Framing + Theories is an attempt to provide the overarching ideas, principles and theories that shape Papel Machete’s work and the La víspera de la abolición project. Subjects or areas of thought include decolonization, neoliberalism, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggle, Black feminist theory, Queer theory, and more.
articles and essays:
- “The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism” by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- “Understanding Patriarchy” by bell hooks
- “Marginality as Site of Resistance” by bell hooks
- “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde
- “Mapping the Radical Imaginary: A Relational Genealogy of the Puerto Rican Left Since the 1990s” by José A. Laguarta Ramírez
- “If we can dismantle patriarchy and capitalism, we might be onto something:” – An interview with Mary Hooks for Scalawag, originally published in 2018.
- Michel Foucault on the Panopticon Effect
- Discipline & Punish – Panopticism
“there’s no such thing as neutral education. education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”
– paulo freire
books / zines / toolkits:
- Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Marxist Leninist Philosophy Diagrams, Tables, Illustrations written and compiled by T. Vlasova
- The Queer Art of Failure (chapter three) by Jack Halberstam
- Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
- My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary by Leila Khaled
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Bulbancha Is Still A Place Zine – Issue #1 + Issue #2
- BYP100’s She Safe We Safe Black Queer Feminist Curriculum Toolkit
podcasts / films / videos:
- VIDEO: US Empire v Political Prisoners: A Teach-In in Celebration of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Notions) | April 27, 2020
- PODCAST: Indigenous Action Podcast
- FILM: Neptune Front by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams
- VIDEO PLAYLIST: bell hooks: Remembering a Feminist Intellectual, The New School
- VIDEO: Barnard Center: Paradoxes of Neoliberalism
- FILM: Israelism, directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen
