Gossip as Direct Action

“Gossip as Direct Action” was originally published in Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography edited by Sally Cole and Lynne Phillips (2013, Pluto). Based on Zapatista solidarity activism in Montreal and Mexico between 2006 and 2013, Lagalisse develops feminist debates regarding the construction of “public” vs. “private” space to suggest that anarchists operate according to state logic more than they realize. This ethnography was an early inspiration for Lagalisse’s Occult Features of Anarchism (2019, PM Press) and was included in in the French edition, Anarchisme Occulte (2022, Remue Ménage).