"[Radical spaces] serve increasingly where there's almost no place that isn't privatized or commodified or policed. More and more they serve a crucial role of people finding each other and being able to actually engage in face to face conversation... After the Trump election, so many people were suddenly interested in politics, and where do you go to find that?"

Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, co-author of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism and Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief.