She's Not There
Maybe everyone thinks New York belongs to someone else but feels it belongs to them.
The shark doesn’t care as it sinks its teeth into your leg. It doesn’t even want to eat you.
Shuli Branson
translation
an excerpt from Florent Gabarron-Garcia, A People’s History Of Psychoanalysis, trans. Shuli Branson (Pluto Press, 2025)
We are sharing the introduction from the recently published A People’s History of Psychoanalysis by Florent Gabarron-Garcia (Pluto Press, 2025) translated by Shuli. The book sketches a path, from Freud to the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (Socialist Patient’s Collective) in West Germany, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis has a rich history
She's Not There
Some Epigrams Against Life
Each of us believes our visions are good and right and with enough reason will be accepted generally.
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 25 - Practices that do the Unchoosing
In this episode, I speak with two beautiful trans writers, artists, thinkers, Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, who recently published Trans Femme Futures with Pluto Books.
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The Breakup Theory Episode 24 - Putting the Ghosts In Their Graves (a letter episode with Caroline)
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On Manarchists
Dear CAW, What’s going on with these manarchists? It’s 2025, have we not gotten past the tedious takeovers, the pointless pontification, the theoretical throwdowns, the fuckboy fuckery, the unaccountable accountability, the righteous reversals, the useless utopias, the know-it-all nay-saying, the abiding abuse, and the lamentable lack of insight?
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Continued Breakup Files: Illness and Revolution
In our impatience to abolish everything, we don’t open up avenues of conspiracy that use what is to do what is not yet.
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The Breakup Theory Episode 23 - Dean Spade on How We Act When Things Get Really Hard
A conversation between Shuli and Dean Spade, about his recent book Love in a Fucked Up World
CAW Monthly Book Club!
Reading a book alone is all well and good, but have you ever talked about one with other people? While we get further lured into mediated isolation, we can still find escape from the enclosure through discussion groups around the works we love (or don't) that prefigure the
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In Memoriam Joshua Clover - The Breakup Theory Episode 22, a rebroadcast of The Final Straw Radio interview from 2021
Today I’m re-releasing a conversation I recorded for the Final Straw Radio with Joshua Clover in 2021. I wanted to present this conversation in memoriam of Joshua, who we learned last week had died.
She's Not There
Cause and Affect
With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.
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Trans Ultraviolence
Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .