We’ve made it to five years thanks to the support of our subscribers, who co-own New Feeling with us. To mark our anniversary, you can now join the co-op and support our work for only $5/month, or $55/year.

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As New Feeling turns 5, we zoom out by surveying the co-ops, solidarity economies, and platform alternatives that make our work possible and show how we can organize differently.

Featuring @flaminghydra.com, @subvert.fm & more!

www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...

@tombeedham.bsky.social dove into the big-tent anarchism of Vancouver screamo punks Emma Goldman, interviewing them about their debut full-length 'all you are is we:'

www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...

Meanwhile, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social facilitates a conversation between Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 about their shared Chinese and Canadian roots, and how their work transcends borders.
www.newfeeling.ca/sook-yin-lee...

It’s been fascinating watching the collaged anarchist speculative fiction of Emma Goldman’s ‘all you are is we’ take off. I spoke with the band about ambiguous utopias and their very busy year
www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...

@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about the cyberpunk landscapes of Little Stone Crow’s sci-fi hip hop
www.newfeeling.ca/little-stone...

@danielgwilson.bsky.social checks in on the genre-agnostism of Lethbridge, AB noise rockers Sentries
www.newfeeling.ca/sentries-fea...

@grahamericlatham.bsky.social writes about the playful fury of Montreal’s Egyptian Cotton Arkestra and their “identification with the communitarian ethos of free jazz”
www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about how Substack’s spurious scheme to sell writers and workers the promise of empowerment effectively sequesters them from their colleagues, a shared working environment, and formal safeguards against their own exploitation.
www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...

In “21st Century Co-op Ecologies,” @lesliekenchu.bsky.social, @therewasnosound.bsky.social and I survey the flourishing cooperative movement that’s taken shape over the last 5 years, tracing its deeper historical foundations.
www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...

Then, just before it plunged into half a year of darkness, Yukon fest Wonderhorse invited us out to cover its answer to the territory's "very top-down and Whitehorse-centric" funding administration and decision-making www.newfeeling.ca/after-the-go...

in 2022, Ford dropped indoor mask mandates and experts warned ON testing was catching ~10% of COVID cases. I figured fests were off the table. So when St. John’s NL festival @lawnyavawnya.bsky.social reached out, I jumped at a chance to escape to the Atlantic Bubble
www.newfeeling.ca/family-value...

Shortly after we ran this, a new TO alt mag reached out re: reprinting it abridged in their first issue. Eventually, @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social partnered with @thegrindto.bsky.social; we contribute regular music content to their arts section, incl. concert listings
www.newfeeling.ca/joseph-shaba...

Another recurring feature, Group Chat was a kaleidoscopic response to the single authoritative voice, letting readers parse a variety of critical takes in the same space, and hopefully, develop their own relationship to the work in the process.
www.newfeeling.ca/group-chat-a...

A lot of dreaming out loud going on in this 2022 story re: the post-shutdown future of live music.

Still good ideas:
-cross-region resource sharing
-venue membership
-livestreamed gigs
-wider applications of harm-reduction
-multi-use venues
-more matinees

www.newfeeling.ca/free-space/