communes

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/10/2023
  

  I Grew Up in a Black Liberationist Commune

  From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility. 

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• SOURCE: Wonkette
  5/4/2022
  

  Grandpa, Tell Us About the Division of Labor on the Hippie Commune

  by Erik Loomis

  Despite their grand countercultural goals, communes tended to follow a rigidly gendered division of labor.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/18/2022
  

  The Lost Utopian Communes of the Midwest

  by Evan Malmgren

  "Inland America is pocked with the unmarked graves of communitarian utopias—primitive socialist and communist experiments—that tried to rebuild the world on what was assumed to be virgin soil."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11/28/2021
  

  Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem

  by Jessica Namakkal

  The commune movements of the 1960s counterculture were organized around a number of pernicious assumptions about indigenous people and the prerogatives of whites to settle and reorganize land. 

• SOURCE: The Tennessean
  7-21-13
  

  The Farm, home to free spirits for 42 years, is at a crossroads

  Aged with years of cannabis and communal living, Stephen Gaskin’s body is worn and his words unhurried. At 78, he walks with slow intention. But the spirit of this tie-dye-clad hippie philosopher — iconic founder of The Farm — remains vibrant.Ask him about the beginning, and his blue eyes come ablaze.More than four decades ago, Gaskin led a caravan of nonconformists across the country, taking his band of beatnik brethren deep into the Tennessee woods. They traveled from San Francisco and settled on a 1,750-acre spread of land in Summertown in 1971 to form their own society — a spiritual commune called The Farm....