Anarchist Media Grant
Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant
Read about the recipients of the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant below and in the 2025 press release.
We typically award several micro-grants ($300-$1500), prioritizing smaller proposals so that we can fund multiple projects each year. Priority is given to creators who are BIPOC, queer and trans/nonbinary, low-income, incarcerated, and working outside of academia.
Applications for our 2024-2025 grant cycle are now closed and applicants have been notified. Keep an eye on our website and socials for the request for applications for the next grant cycle.
The Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant was created in memory of Jen Angel, the social justice activist, baker, writer, and co-founder of Agency who died on February 9, 2023 as a result of an apparent robbery-assault in Oakland, California.
Agency created the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program to help fuel the types of projects that Jen created throughout her life–projects that reflect the spirit of grassroots and do-it-yourself action she worked so hard to sustain. The core tenets of anarchism that underscored Jen’s life and work—autonomy, mutual aid, voluntary association, direct action—are all amplified by the independent media projects funded by this grant program.
Alongside Agency, the grant program in Angel’s honor is co-hosted by the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Applications for the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant are accepted through the institute’s long-running grant program, which has supported hundreds of anarchist writing projects for over the past quarter-century.
Read Remembering Jen Angel to learn more about Jen’s legacy, and the press release announcing the inaugural Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant recipients here.
2025 Recipients
All Damn Night Documentary
Project Description
All Damn Night is a documentary that chronicles resistance to Florida’s 6-week abortion ban through the lens of both legislative and direct action in the American South.
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Filmmakers V. Eye and Erica Esch are comrades in activism who share a love of storytelling and work to document resistance throughout so-called South Florida.
The Dugout
Project Description
The Dugout is a weekly Black anarchist podcast reshaping how we understand Black history, radical movements, and collective liberation. Hosted by Prince Shakur and Jordan, each episode challenges dominant narratives and uplifts Black queer anarchist thought—through sharp media analysis, stories from the frontlines of organizing, and intergenerational conversations with radical elders and anarchists today.
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Prince Shakur is a writer, educator, and organizer exploring queer Black histories and radical politics through storytelling. His debut memoir, When They Tell You To Be Good (Tin House, 2022), weaves together Black anarchism, masculinity, and global movement work. He co-hosts The Dugout, a podcast centering Black anarchist news and perspectives.
Political Prisoner Interview Series
Project Description
A video series of high-quality interviews with political prisoners, illuminating the challenges they face behind bars, and why it’s important to support them.
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Eric King is an ex political prisoner who did 10 years in federal prison. While inside Eric stood on his ethics suffered for it. He did 7.5 total years in segregation, faced and won an additional trial after being attacked by a lieutenant, and was sent to the federal Supermax prison, ADX. Eric is a proud husband and father, and works as a paralegal for the Bread and Roses Legal Center.
The Process is the Punishment Podcast
Project Description
The Process is the Punishment is a three-episode podcast series covering the RICO cases of the “ATL 61”—61 people who were indicted with racketeering and conspiracy charges for their protest against Cop City, a $109 million police militarization facility built in Weelaunee Forest in so-called Atlanta. The series is produced by Mainline, an abolitionist independent news source based in Atlanta, which has been covering the Stop Cop City movement since the beginning. Through interviews with defendants, legal experts, and defense attorneys, this podcast series is a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the largest RICO indictment of this kind in U.S. history, as well as the eco-political movement that has been on the receiving end of such immense state repression.
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Mainline is an independent abolitionist news source based in Atlanta, GA, that was founded in 2019, covering social issues, culture, news, and music. In 2021, Mainline broke the “Cop City” story when the legislation to approve the lease of the facility was introduced to the local city council. Since then, Mainline has critically covered the issue and the Stop Cop City movement, providing critical news reports, environmental research, and extremely thoughtful sociopolitical analysis in honest deep dives in the form of essays, articles, podcasts, and more.
A Red Road To The West Bank Documentary
Project Description
In 2016, Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas traveled to Palestine, witnessing firsthand the struggles of Palestinians resisting occupation. A Red Road to the West Bank is a documentary about the deep parallels between Indigenous struggles in North America and Palestine—two peoples fighting against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.
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Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas – Filmmaker
Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas is a Kanien’kehá:ka activist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur from Kanehsatà:ke. He was part of the 1990 resistance during the Oka Crisis, standing against the military blockade of his community by the Canadian army. His independent documentaries, such as Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!, explore Mi’kmaq resistance to fracking, while Karistatsi Onienre: The Iron Snake exposes the dangers of the Énergie Est pipeline project. In 2018, he broke ground by opening Quebec’s first Indigenous-owned cannabis shop, six months ahead of Canada’s marijuana legalization. Clifton is now collaborating with Franklin on two documentaries that confront the impacts of colonization and the ongoing resistance to it.
Franklin López – Filmmaker
Born in Borikén (Puerto Rico), Franklin López has been stirring up trouble with his camera since he was 17. In 1994, he founded subMedia, a platform for radical films spotlighting grassroots anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles, eco-defense, and Indigenous sovereignty. After producing hundreds of films and mentoring budding filmmakers, Franklin left subMedia to dive into long-form documentaries and launched Amplifier Films. His credits include INVASION and Yintah—award-winning films chronicling the Wet’suwet’en resistance to oil and gas pipelines—and La Lucha Sigue, which sheds light on COPINH and the legacy of Indigenous land defender Berta Cáceres. Today, he continues amplifying voices of resistance and sharing his skills with those on the frontlines.
Southy Anarchy
Project Description
Southy Anarchy is a podcast and website resource by South Africa anarchist organizer Tshi Malatji for and about anarchists in the Southern Africa region. The podcast and website focuses on the past, present, and future of Southy anarchist politics, philosophy, and action.
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Tshi Malatji is an anarchist organiser from Bloemfontein, South Africa where they organise the 56 Tambo arts co-operative and commune. The co-op includes a public library, community cinema, indigenous folklore and socially-owned technology.
When The Window Opens
Project Description
When The Window Opens is a collaborative playing card and mapping game designed to inspire collective action. The game explores what we desire, what we want to do, and what we can do together locally. The game is played through prompts designed to help activists engage individually and with others, toward playing, practicing, and living anarchy in the everyday–spurring communal imagination toward collective action in new and exciting ways during an era of increased oppression. The game will be offered digitally for free and we’ll be selling an analog version at solidarity rates.
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CAW is a worker-run anarchist journal of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find! CAW is built on the diverse writings, collaborations and offerings of carla joy bergman, Shuli Branson, Dani Burlison, and Vicky Osterweil.
2024 Recipients
Colin Ward Audio Documentary
Project Description
Colin Ward was far from the stereotype of the black-masked, bomb-throwing anarchist, and yet until his death in 2010 he was the foremost British writer – and one of the greatest thinkers – in what remains a misunderstood philosophic tradition, one that has a profound relevance for us today. His greatest belief was in people; freedom is a social activity, he held, always rooted in the local and the everyday. This audio documentary celebrates Ward’s life and work, marking the centenary of his birth.
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Patrick Bernard is an audio producer based in Norwich, UK. He has worked for several years at Resonance FM, a community arts radio station based in London, and has produced documentaries on a wide range of subjects, from the German writer W. G. Sebald and the Yiddish poet Avram Stencl to the role of translation in the French Revolution. His first feature for the BBC, “Learning from the Great Tide,” about the North Sea Flood of 1953, was broadcast in January 2023.
Web-Based Resources for Anarchist Initiatives
Project Description
This project involves developing a web-based platform for anarchist initiatives seeking to promote their work and connect with one another, including a podcast hosting service. The AFCC aims to provide a resource for content production for public education, including the new “Reading Theory” podcast, along with online resources for anarchists and social media content.
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The AFCC (Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes) is an international effort to link existing and new organizations that operate according to anarchist principles. Our mission is to facilitate the creation and growth of active communities, to amplify anarchist voices, and to occupy the web with an anarchist presence.
Total Liberation Animated Video
Project Description
When we say we want total liberation, what do we mean? What are the possible pitfalls, and how can we articulate and practice liberation in our own lives, in solidarity with others? This animated essay will explore the philosophical, practical, and imaginative questions posed by opposition to all forms of oppression and the dream of liberation for everyone.
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just wondering… is a small, autonomous collective that creates critical and speculative animated essays. Productions often explore anti-speciesism, posthumanism, and social and environmental justice. The collective consists of Aron Nor, independent researcher and self-taught filmmaker-artivist; Mina Mimosa, visual artist and illustrator; and M. Martelli, writer and scholar-activist.
Black Anarchism Oral Histories
Project Description
Huey Hewitt’s project is part of his dissertation work at Harvard University on the history of Black anarchism. In narrating the intersection of the life stories, historical context, and theoretical contributions of a cluster of key figures in the Black anarchist tradition, Huey draws on oral history interviews with black anti-state radicals as well as other movement activists who have been inspired by their ideas. Clips from some of the interviews will be shared via YouTube and other social media as a public history component of the project.
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Huey Hewitt is a multi-disciplinary historian of Black life and Black politics. He is currently completing his doctorate at Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies. When he is not reading, writing, or organizing, Huey enjoys meditating, lifting weights, and playing in a queer basketball league.
2023 Recipients
Elements of Mutual Aid Docuseries
Project Description
“The Elements of Mutual Aid” is an independent, four-part docuseries (currently mid-production) that explores the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of anti-authoritarian mutual aid across North America. Each chapter is based on one the four elements – fire, earth, water, and air – and introduces a unique cast of grassroots activists that each tackle oppression in their communities.
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Payton (he/they) and Leah (they/them) are anarchist filmmakers who have both spent the last decade organizing on the ground in their communities. Payton’s from Michigan and has focused on anti-fascist organizing, agit-prop production, and popular education. Leah’s from Texas has organized disaster response and recovery, worked in solidarity with Oaxacan indigenous anarchists and migrants, and documented lessons learned along the way. Both are first-time filmmakers who are excited to co-produce media that helps explain how anti-authoritarian values can be put to practice.
Occupy Sandy Documentary
Project Description
“Occupy Sandy: A Decade’s Retrospective on Mutual Aid” documents Occupy Sandy, an anarchistic mutual aid disaster relief effort that delivered millions of dollars in relief to more than a dozen neighborhoods and mobilized at least 60,000 volunteers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Combining collective oral history practice and documentary film, the project explores how Occupy Sandy’s work embodies a prefigurative anarchist project. Occupy Sandy: A Decade’s Retrospective on Mutual Aid hopes to provide communities with education and inspiration for non-hierarchical post-disaster mutual aid organizing.
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Micaela Suminski is a service worker, union organizer, and documentary filmmaker from the Philadelphia area, now living in Brooklyn, NY. Centering on forms of collective resistance, Suminski’s documentary projects have explored topics including gig economy food delivery workers, university student strikes, tenant organizing, post-disaster mutual aid, and personal loss.
Undoing Rigid Radicalism Podcast
Project Description
Based on the book Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, Pamela Carmona and Alf Bojórquez present the podcast “Undoing Rigid Radicalism.” This podcast in Spanish explores how concepts like paranoia, purity, guilt, and punishment affect social movements in Latin America and how we can build a joyful militancy.”
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Alf Bojorquéz: (she/her): Musician and writer. She has embarked on extensive tours of experimental music, hardcore punk, and improvisation, playing percussion and conducting workshops on fiction, art, and critical theory in Mexico and the United States. Her first novel, “Pepitas de calabaza,” was published by Fondo Blanco, and her second book, “No existe dique capaz de contener al océano furioso,” a personal essay on political philosophy, will soon be released by Heredad Publishing.
Pamela Carmona: (she/her): Sound, self-management, and social justice. Promotes self-management through sociocracy at Sociocracy For All. Radio and Podcast host and producer.
Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention Podcast
Project Description
The history of the San Francisco Bay Area-based collective known as Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention is the subject of a new seven-part podcast series utilizing archival testimonies, sound images, and interviews with remaining members of the group that has fought for justice since the 1970s. The collective has focused organizing efforts on issues including the continuing housing crisis in the Bay Area. Based on a writing project supported by IAS in 2016.
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Toshio Meronek produces Sad Francisco, a podcast about neoliberal nightmares. Their book ‘Miss Major Speaks’ was published in 2023 by Verso.