Yalla Matame

Yalla Matame is a queer woman of color who lives in a warehouse in Oakland, CA. Her political work focuses on prison abolition, radical art, feminism, queerness. She is a core collective member of the the anarchist counterinformation project for the Bay Area, FireWorks (under the guise of Gansett). She is currently working on starting a radical printing press to publish work by authors outside of the ivory tower.

A flashpoint action reading list

Today Transformation published the first article in our debate on flashpoint action. Yalla Matame argued that flashpoints are a way of creating and radicalizing larger social movements. On 6th December we will publish Bellamy's response. Here is a reading list for the interested reader to find out

By Yalla Matame and Bellamy

/ 4 Dec 2013

What's the point of flashpoint action?

Flashpoints are moments of resistance - often violent - against systems of oppression. Can such actions build social movements or do they destroy solidarity and community? Yalla Matame argues in favor of their potential and Bellamy responds to her arguments here.

By Yalla Matame

/ 4 Dec 2013