Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This podcast provides audio versions of our monthly feature as well as interviews with the contributors. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in. It is hosted by Inmn Neruin, with theme music by Margaret Killjoy. We can be found at https://linktr.ee/tangledwild

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July 18, 2025 90 mins

Episode Notes This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have Into the Terror Castle: Gabby and Cuervo 1 by Jackson Culpepper. Into the Terror Castle is a piece of short fiction about urban exploring, the horrors of Capitalism, and cryptids. And if you like it, it’s a series! And you can find more from Jackson at linktr.ee/jcculpepper. Read along for free tangledwilderness.org. The word of the month is about tho...

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On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Miriam, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in June, including a dive into the wildfires in Canada, an update the state of immigration enforcement, and a bit about a contentious election in NYC. Also, friend of the pod, Kneecap makes another appearance.

Here's a link for the fundraiser James mentions for Primrose: http://gofund.me/dda02cc7

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June 27, 2025 68 mins

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This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have part two of a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast, with our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. In the last episode we had an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. Tod...

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June 20, 2025 97 mins

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This month on Strangers, we have a crossover episode with Live Like the World is Dying, for our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. We have an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. But, if you’d like to read along then check out our monthly features on ou...

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This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn continue their talk with Olsen about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here. There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a word of the month, so that's o...

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This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn talk with Olson about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here. There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a word of the month, so that's on them.

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April 30, 2025 65 mins

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This month on Strangers, we have The Memory Shop by Melissa Ren, a short story about grief, belonging, and memory alteration. The word of the month is about deep care…and also deep anxiety. Read along at Tangledwilderness.org

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Melissa Ren (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazi...

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March 28, 2025 56 mins

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This month on Strangers, we have Wax by Henri Feola, a story about disaster, cataclysm, and memory. The word of the month is about speaking loudly, and we have an interview with Henri after the feature. The interview is sadly cut short by technical difficulties, but is still quite enjoyable.

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Henri Feola (he/they) is a writer, musician, abolitionist, and mutual aid organizer based in Appalachia....

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This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that we're Kickstarting. You can get so many deals and cool rewards and stretch goals that have already been unlocked, as long as you're listening to this before March 21st at 9am est. If you're listening after that, then you can probably just go preorder or regular order the...

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This month on Strangers we have The Dandelion Gatherers: On Italian American Foodways, Anarchism, and Assimilation. This piece is a historical exploration of Italian American foodways, anarchism, and assimilation through folklore, newspaper stories, and accounts of women who gathered dandelions by the roadside.. The word of the month is about everyone's favorite revolutionary musical, besides Newsies. Read along a...

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Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have a Live Like the World is Dying crossover episode because the feature is a Live Like the World is Dying Skill Series zine. Casandra talks with Aaron, the host of the Propaganda By the Seed podcast about edible perennial plants that you can grow. You can read the zine here or get a free PDF of it at www.Tangledwilderness.org.

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Aaron Parker can be found host...

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December 20, 2024 75 mins

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This month on Strangers, Inmn talks to Margaret and James about Ready For Anything, which you can read at www.tangledwilderness.org. The zine has a lot of practical advice and checklists for preparing for another Trump presidency and a world that is growing more fascistic each day. Sign up for our monthly features at patron.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

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Inmn can be found on Instagram...

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We have a special extra episode of Strangers this month. We have an interview with Henri Feola, talking about his zine The Veil Between Worlds is Plexiglass: notes from an incarcerated forest defender. If you want a copy of this zine, go to www.tangledwilderness.org.

About the Zine

On January 18, 2023, Atlanta police murdered Tortuguita, a protester defending the Weelaunee People’s Forest. Three days lat...

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This month on Strangers we have a collection of poems by William Morris, thoughtfully edited by Casandra. The word of the month is far too much ado about urine. You can read along at TangledWilderness.org

Guest Info

Casandra (they/them) is a book designer, occasional host of Live Like the World is Dying, and collective member of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. They love books and hope you're having a l...

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This month on Strangers we have some short stories by Margaret Killjoy, Folk Tales of the Lowlands of Cekon, a set of folk stories set in the world Margaret’s new book The Sapling Cage from Feminist Press. The word of the month is about faeries being sketchy.

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Margaret Killjoy (she/they) can be found on IG @MargaretKilljoy or on twitter @magpiekilljoy. You can find more of her essays on Substack...

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This month on Strangers we have Refuting the Legend: On the Words and Life of Louis Mercier-Vega. Jame Stout gives us an introduction to the life and words of Louis Mercier Vega, an anarchist writer who fought with the International Group of the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War, along with an English translation of Louis' piece Refuting the Legend from the original in French. The word of the month is about r...

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This Month on Strangers, we have a special guest interview by Margaret and Casandra with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber to talk about their new book Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. The feature is an abridged transcript of the conversation.

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Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy.

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This month on Strangers we have a comic, Queer Uprisings by Hazel Newlevant. Queer Uprisings is a comic about some of the acts of group resistance that set the stage for the more-famous Stonewall Uprising in 1969, which we commemorate annually with Pride marches. The word of the month is about forgetting, literally. Follow along at tangledwilderness.org

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Hazel Newlevant (they/them) is a cartoonis...

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May 31, 2024 76 mins

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This month on Strangers we have a collection of poetry by Maria Elle. Escape Plan is a collection of poetry that explores what it means to hold the dreams of the future while grappling with the persistent horrors of now, through the lens of love, war, Capitalist-driven climate devastation, anti-Zionist struggles, and the pursuit of a free Palestine. The word of the month is about being connected to the Earth. Foll...

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This month on Strangers we have “Hurrah for Anarchy: a history of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists” by Margaret Killjoy, which is a short historical article about…May Day. We have no audio feature this month, just an interview with Margaret about the zine. If you want to read the zine, go to Tangled Wilderness.org and check it out for free! The word of the month is about the nature of fear.

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