Under the Tree Podcast
May 2026
Anarchy is community gardens and potluck dinners, playgrounds and art classes, friends and family in the foreground, and dancing wildly on the ruins of a system that was killing us. Anarchy is spontaneous cooperation without coercion, mutuality and reciprocity, tolerance for confusion, contingency, improvisation, dialogue and debate, experimentation, spontaneity, and the flux that accompanies constant social learning. Anarchy is embracing the cosmic dream boogie and a freedom we’ve never tasted. Anarchy is free people doing all the things that free people do, and respecting other free people doing everything that free people do. We’re in conversation with Jessica Lawless, author of Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent, a moving account of abolitionist feminist resistance excavated from their decades of organizing and activism.
