For this Spring Series across three workshops, we turn to fermentation and other earth-based practices—such as foraging, germination, and walking inquiry—to learn with living systems about how transformation unfolds. We explore how these processes might inform social movement strategy, collective organising, and political practice under conditions of collapse and authoritarian drift.
In a time marked by the rise of extreme right, white supremacy, militarisation, and ongoing colonial violence, fermentation offers a language—and a practice—for resisting otherwise. And a counter-logic to fascist ideology:
Where fascism suppresses life, fermentation multiplies it.
Where fascism fears difference, fermentation thrives on it.
Where fascism clings to purity and rigid identity, fermentation cultivates symbiosis, contamination, interdependence, and queer temporalities.
Research Questions
What might it mean to work through small, situated gestures—shifts in attention, relation, action, and care—as part of antifascist practice?
What can we learn from microbial systems about resilient, attuned, symbiotic cultures of resistance?
Practical Details
It is no longer possible to participate in this iteration of Fermenting Antifascism.
This series is designed as a continuous, cohort-based process. Like fermentation, collective un/learning takes time, attention, and mutual care. Therefore, participants have registered to participate in the full series and at the moment, the cohort is at full capacity!
