Weekly Roundup | Mar 8, 2026
Happy International Working Women’s Day! We are standing with working class, precarious, colonized, and otherwise marginalized women today (for the rest of the month, and every day). This week, we published three essays and a podcast: one article and pod on video games and nostalgia, one on how to build democratic organizations, and another on smashing patriarchy.
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- Fundraiser by Senhadji Lisa: Ahmed
- Islamic humanitarian giving
- Mohamed Wael’s Family: Rebuild Hope After Loss in Gaza
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Organizing Across Communities and Culture
Organizing is a way that everyday folks can enact change. This week's posts explore that possibility.
Podcast: “Games Suck Nowadays”
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip details GamerGate 1.0, and 2.0 and discusses the the linkages between “core gamer” culture and fascism. Dip shares some suggestions on how to combat right-wing influence in gaming through a four-point framework: build, fight, empower, and inspire. This framework, paired
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“We” Didn’t Have Better Games. We Had Better Ads.
Dip rejects nostalgia-dipped understandings of the current video game culture and industry.
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Most Organizations Are Hierarchical. Here’s What Can Be Done Instead.
Following some notes on how to get involved, I want to dive into more depth about organizing. The first post was about organizing too, but, for someone who’s brand new, it often looks like activism: the tactics without the strategy. That’s fine; spontaneity is the lifeblood of any
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To End Gender-Based Violence, the Patriarchy Needs to be Smashed
Dip discusses the importance of having an analysis of patriarchy, based on recent information released by the UN on violence against women.
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Marginalia
Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.
- Nostalgia is a wild thing; it often is framed in such a way that sounds benign but is often very dangerous. To explore more of these tensions, To Defeat Fascism, We Must Reject Nostalgia and The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia are good choices that explore what they say on the tin. The video game specific lens needs to be deepened, but my favorite piece this vein is Years Later, the Ending of 'Dragon's Dogma' Remains Wonderfully Weird and Subversive, which covers my favorite game in a lens that covers the interconnections between stories, conspiracy, and nostalgia as it relates to... everything. Gaming's "Good Old Days" Are a Lie is a great personal essay, discussing how influential marketing is.
- Organization theory is a whole field (worth googling), with anarchic takes like Kevin Carson's Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective as interesting examples. This is a topic worth exploring more concretely, as has been started by (bourgeois) folks like SI Labs's Zappos and Holacracy: What the Research Shows and (non-bourgeois) folks like Unicorn Grocery. The big tension here is to not be technocratic; even social technology and design is not enough... along with new structures, there must be new situations that ensure people actually behave differently.
- Patriarchy, especially as it relates to gender-based and sexual violence, is a very pernicious issue that should be taken seriously. A big part of that is organizing around it; efforts like the Gulabi Gang are something we should look into deeply. There's also the studying piece; folks need to learn how to see patriarchy. I like Beyond Liberal and Marxist-Leninist Feminisms, the Combahee River Collective Statement, and—if you read nothing else—Pathology of Patriarchy.
Other Stories Worth Knowing
News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.
- ‘He Was Very Convincing’: Over 600 Mostly Black Women Sterilized and Cut Open for No Reason, Lawsuit Claims — Now Virginia Hospital Faces $6B Lawsuit
- Live updates: Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei as new supreme leader, state media reports
- President Trump Buys Netflix Debt Worth Up to $1.25 Million Amid WBD Sale
- Union City tornado rocks community as it comes together to clean up
- Trump vows to 'take care of Cuba,' praises Venezuela cooperation at summit
- Kuwait declares force majeure, cuts crude oil output due to Middle East conflict
- Rapper-politician Balendra Shah on course to be Nepal's next prime minister
- Nuestro Chicago Archives and the power of family photographs
- SpongeBob, Iron Man and Call of Duty: Inside the US meme war against Iran
- Is Australia's Palantir investment beyond the pale?
- Colombia opens consultation on sacred ‘Black Line’ of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Hezbollah’s Attack on Israel Drags Lebanon Back to War
- From Mogadishu to Minneapolis
- Abolish ICE: Abolish the Police
- Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon
- Intelligence agency gathers US smartphone location data without warrants, memo says
- The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all
- California Law Forces Age-Tracking Into Every Operating System by 2027
- Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers
