On my birthday this year, I was gifted a bronze colored coin adorned with images on one side and on the other, the words “Wisdom, Courage, Temperance, Justice: Try Not to Exchange Them for Others”. This came from a new friend who would quickly become one of the most important people in my life these
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Brandon Aragon and I recently have done some episodes together for the podcast about living within Mexico, but it occurred to me today that I haven’t talked enough about doing business within Mexico. I am currently sitting in a meeting for Anarchapulco in Acapulco with the drivers that we have built a relationship over the
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Let’s talk about BOUNDARIES. The idea of this post was borne last Wednesday as we filmed what would be my first episode with Agorist Nexus as cohost of the podcast, with Catherine Bonandin, shared here. A lot of that episode was telling the story of Anarchapulco going from an event with no boundaries or structure
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Despite what the HBO series might imply, Anarchapulco is far from dead. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go watch The Anarchists on HBO. Anyway, we (Me, Cat, and the rest of the production team) have been hard at work laying the plans for next year and I am here to share
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Last Sunday, the final episode of the HBO series, The Anarchists went live. There is really no weirder experience than reliving some of your most traumatic memories on TV, especially mainstream national TV. Each week for the six weeks prior, I watched along with the rest of the world to see just how much of
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HOW TO NOT BE BITTER AND ANGRY DESPITE TODAY’S WORLD STATE Life is fucking short, too short to be bitter about the state of the world if you ask me. I stay informed to an extent to have an accurate grip on reality, but as far as the nonsense that most of the world spends
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Until recently, for me, spirituality and agorism were two completely separate things. In fact, spirituality was something that other people engaged in to make them feel better about the way the world works. That’s because most of the people I encountered for a long time who were practicing “spirituality” were pretty detached from reality as
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Anarchapulco has been a huge part of my personal history. because that is the first place where I started to share my story when we moved to Mexico nearly 6 years ago. Say what you want about it, but it has really managed to shake things up in the anarchy world, for better or for
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When you’re dealing with an ultra-logical crowd like capitalists and agorists, things like spirituality and manifestation are left on the back burner, thought unnecessary with real hard work. For many years, I was of this mindset. As a kid, I had some pagan and Wiccan influence from family and family friends. I thought it
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I won’t say where to keep my somewhat false sense of privacy, but I’ve been noticing an increase in vandalism in my beautiful city by some anarcho-feminist groups. In fact, there’s an anarcho-feminist surge within Mexico right now as many women are becoming increasingly intolerant of things like femicide. In basically every major city, you
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One of the most common questions I get from people is how to make money in Mexico. I’m a strong believer that if I can do it, anyone can because of the pretty unique hurdles I face with my legal situation. Many people who follow me know that I came to Mexico with nothing
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As one of the notoriously most critical people of Anarchapulco over these last 6 conferences I’ve been involved with, I’m here to tell you Anarchapulco 2021 was the best year ever. I’ve spent the time since I got home working on post-production stuff for the conference and thinking about what it is that happened this
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I first discovered my agorist tendencies in college, but until recently, I never really understood WHY agorism made so much sense to me, why it was so natural when for so many it’s something hard. If there’s one thing I’ve encountered over the years, its a lot of people talking the talk without walking the
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What a fucking time to be alive. As I write this there’s a somewhat violent aggressive protest happening in Washington DC. Apparently the Make America Great Again Donald Trump Cultists have stormed the capitol and are kicking out the politicians. I have the luxury of watching this from afar because I live in
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If there’s one thing I’ve been thankful for this year, it’s been my choice to pursue agorism. Being a modern day agorist who was raised by the internet, it’s only natural that my agorist lifestyle led me to a remote, at-home sort of lifestyle. I started that specific struggle years before the majority of
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Anarchapulco has been known as the largest gathering of anarcho-capitalist minds in the world for years now but it hasn’t been without criticism. In fact, partially due to the confrontational nature of anarchists in general, Anarchapulco has faced immense amounts of criticism over the years. Everyone’s got an opinion on Anarchapulco, whether it be good
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When my Dad asked my best friend Henza why he does all that he does for me, he had one thing to say: “She’s living history, man. Not many people are out there are actually living by these ideals.” That’s the truth, but the thing is, that statement doesn’t apply to only me. In the
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The big difference between an agorist and an anarcho-capitalist as far as I am concerned is rooted in action. One talks a lot about how things ought to be, the other actually tries to live what they feel the world should be like, in spite of the system in which we are all forced to
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The best job I ever had was for an agorist. At the time, I was 18 and looking for a summer job. For the last several years of my life, there was a ice cream store at the end of my street. It had gone through 3 owners in my life, finally settling to one
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It’s not enough to read Konkin and share agorist memes. To truly be an agorist, one must support the agorist market. What do I mean by this? – Basically, if you’re looking at spending your money, first look for an agorist to give it to. It doesn’t even have to be someone out
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Especially in recent times, it’s easy to get so caught up in looking at what is wrong with the world that we often forget to look at what the world we would actually want to see is like. I can’t speak for everyone but the world I envision has very little restrictions…..a world without oppressive
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How old is agorism, really? We know the concept was articulated in 1974 by Samuel Edward Konkin III, but I’d be willing to bet the concept in its raw, natural state is a lot older than that. My theory is that Konkin just developed a political and anthropological label that is agorism to describe something
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The time I spent in Detroit was arguably the best time I spent in the United States before leaving. It was also my only experience of living in what I considered to be an agorist community before leaving. The idea to move there came when we were already living off grid in Cleveland and being
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I found agorism and anarchism at the same time in my life, nearly 10 years ago at this point. At the time I considered them to mean nearly the same thing. Over the years as I became heavily involved with the modern day anarchist community, I started to note a distinct difference between the two.
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what makes an agorist, and have come up with a list of 15 things along the theme of “you might be an agorist if”. Sure it’s a spinoff of some bad comedy skits, but I think it’s a cool way to showcase what I’ve noticed in many agorist
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I don’t know about you but I’ve been preparing for a worldwide crisis of some sort since 2012, which is around the same time I found Agorism. It was all largely in response to the fact that I saw some big event coming and I wanted to be ready for the day I should need
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Part of my motivation for becoming an agorist was to be prepared for any sort of collapse that may come about. The way I saw it 8 years ago was this: collapse of some kind (likely financial) was coming soon and I had no skills to exist in a world without government, even if that
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Traditionally, agorism was simple. Have skills, make money off them. In the modern world, however, we have a different situation and as the internet has taught us, modern problems require modern solutions. So how does one manage agorism in the modern world? What does that look like for the average person? I’ve compiled a
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Agorism is all about voluntary exchange in spite of the powers that be. It’s about living free in spite of oppression; in some ways, it’s a more realistic approach than simple anarchism for many because it provides a solution. It’s more than a philosophy but a lifestyle in itself. I caught glimpses of it with
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Agorism has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, although I didn’t have a name for it for most of my life. My parents have always just called it “getting by.” My agorist nature comes from the influence of my parents and how they chose to make money during
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