Knowledge is not a credential. It is a collective instrument. The Study Wing is how we sharpen it together.
Twelve active reading groups across four neighborhoods. One shared text per cycle. A commitment to producing knowledge collectively, not consuming it individually.
Paulo Freire, 1968. Cycle 12 runs through April 2026. Four neighborhood groups meeting weekly. Written responses due to the Journal by April 30.
Frantz Fanon, 1961. Cycle 11 produced six written responses, two of which were published in the Winter 2026 Journal. Reading group notes available in the archive.
Dean Spade, 2020. Cycle 13 begins May 2026. Particularly relevant to our current network expansion. Vote on texts for Cycle 14 opens alongside.
Core texts, reading lists, and archival materials. All freely available. Knowledge belongs to everyone.
The Workshop is a monthly gathering of writers who are working through material for the Journal or for their own projects. Peer critique, editorial support, distribution infrastructure. Open to all collective members.
Writers bring work-in-progress — drafts, outlines, half-formed arguments. The group reads together, responds to the work, and helps sharpen the argument. No MFA workshop model. No hierarchy of expertise. Just people who care about words and ideas taking each other’s work seriously.
Working-class intellectuals. People who think carefully about the world they live in but don’t have institutional support for that thinking. Writers who are not trying to write for mainstream publications. Anyone who has something to say and needs help saying it better.
Location via community signal. Submit work for critique by 03.26 to allow reading time.
Submit drafts, pitches, or queries to the editorial collective. All genres, all forms. The Journal publishes essays, field reports, fiction, poetry, and visual work.
View The JournalLabor organizer and writer based in the Southwest. Author of “Why Dual Power Is Not A Metaphor” and the forthcoming “On Infrastructure and Imagination.”
Community organizer and intake coordinator. Documents the day-to-day operations of the mutual aid network with precision and care. Author of the Intake Report series.
Labor historian and reading circle facilitator. Writes the Study Notes series connecting historical working-class movements to contemporary organizing challenges.
The Study Wing is open to all collective members. Show up to an intake session, introduce yourself, and find a reading group near you.
