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Fundraiser
Now that we’ve published three issues of Bad Apple Magazine we’d like to invest a bit of time and effort to get the word out! We’re asking for help to cover the costs of printing the zine so we can take it to radical book shops, bookfairs and social centres. Here’s a link to our…
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Issue 3: Islam and Anarchism
We’re excited to share the third issue of Bad Apple Magazine which is now available to download here! This issue features an interview with Mohamed Abdou, the author of ‘Islam and Anarchism’ (2022 Pluto Press), talking about ethics of hospitality, learnings from Tahrir Square, post-structuralism, and the role of personal faith in social justice organising.…
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Call for Submissions
Bad Apple Magazine is looking for articles, poems and art for our Winter issue! Deadline is 30th November 2022
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Selma James “Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet”
Book Review by Nora Ziegler Selma James is a founder of the Wages for Housework (WFH) campaign which later became known as Global Women’s Strike (GWS). James’ new book “Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet” includes articles, press releases and essays from 50 years of grassroots organising against…
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Obedience & disobedience
The casual manner in which an array of anarchist slogans, banners, book titles, t-shirts, zines, and badges mock and deride my religious faith masks the fragility of secular anarchist ideology. I used to help run stalls and sometimes workshops with the London Catholic Worker at the London Anarchist Bookfair.
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Rest is resistance
“Take a break,” Moses said to the Israelites. “I’ve spoken to God, and we’re both very keen on this: you need to take Saturdays off.” “Yes, we know, we’ve heard this before,” said the Israelites. “You told us when we were around that mountain. You told us when we were building the Tabernacle. You said…
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Called to be faithful and rebellious
On the outskirts of Des Moines, the Midwestern U.S. capital of Iowa, where partially dilapidated houses replace anonymous high-rises, sits a nondescript two-story house with a porch and overgrown yard. This is the place where it all began.
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Review: We are lady parts
We Are Lady Parts tickled me, inspired me and I wanted more. Channel 4’s subversive six-part drama on Muslim female punk band Lady parts was finally telling a story of Muslim women as normal people who swore, who desired, who were flawed. There was a strange sense of been seen and known, watching a comedy…
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Exvangelical nihilism
When I say that I’m a nihilist it never seems to really be taken seriously. To some people it seems so obvious a position that its barely worth mentioning. Other people likely dismiss me as not really being serious. I think part of the reason for this is that, outwardly, I probably don’t show much…
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