This announcement is about two months overdue, but I wanted to share my latest project with all of you! I (along with two friends) have been releasing a weekly newsletter called The Iron Quill. Loosely inspired by The Federalist Papers, The Iron Quill addresses and shares news, legislation, art, resources, protest information, and our thoughts on current events. We are both team-written, and accepting submissions.

Each issue of The Iron Quill begins with a note from the editors, and an essay written by one of us, or one of the activists we collaborate with on a regular basis. These essays are what originally sparked the idea of The Iron Quill, and set the tone of the issue. No. 8, for example, features an essay relating T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” to the current political situation of the United States, and is subtitled “The Age of the Hollow Men.”

It is my firm belief that education is a key to personal agency, and that an educated populace is a difficult populace to subjugate and control. The Iron Quill strives to provide both education about current events and how to work against the fascism and hatred gaining power and momentum right now. These are words of resistance, and we invite you to participate.

Please read, share, subscribe, and submit your words, your art, your events, and your resources. We will get through this by standing together–many stanzas of one long, epic poem.

The latest issue of The Iron Quill (No. 8) was released late Friday night, and No. 9 is coming this Friday, April 18th.