Cindy Milstein

Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (IAS/AK Press, 2010); the picture-essay collaborative book with Erik Ruin titled Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012); and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism (AK Press, 2015); Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief (AK Press, 2017); Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy (AK Press, 2020); and There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists (AK Press, 2021). Cindy has been overly engaged in numerous collective projects aimed at creating autonomous spaces of resistance, reconstruction, and education, including currently, the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, and the Institute for Advanced Troublemaking and its Anarchist Summer School. Past projects include the decentralized Institute for Anarchist Studies, where Milstein focused on projects such as the Lexicon pamphlet series, IAS/AK Anarchist Interventions book series, Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, and curating anarchist theory tracks at the National Conference on Organized Resistance and Left Forum; Another World Is Possible convergence space at the World Social Forum in Detroit; Defend J20 Resistance; Station 40, an anarchist(ic) home and social center in San Francisco, along with San Francisco Eviction Defense and Coffee Not Cops; Interference Archive in Brooklyn; Occupy Philly; the Don’t Just (Not) Vote campaign; Detroit Eviction Defense; Huron Valley Solidarity and Defense; and Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont. They also taught at the “anarchist summer school” called the Institute for Social Ecology, and have long been involved in community organizing and social/political movements from below.

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