We started The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast to fill a space that had long been missing in media: a platform where Black anarchist thought, history, and lived experience could come together in conversation. Across our first season, we’ve worked alongside collaborators like Dr. Mohamed Abdou and Garrett Felber to explore what it means to organize, survive, and imagine freedom from a Black anarchist perspective. From maroon communities to mutual aid networks, from radical archives to contemporary struggles, we aim to show that anarchism is not an abstract philosophy but a living practice rooted in care, creativity, and collective resilience.

A central part of what we do is reclaiming memory and centering emotional intelligence. Through episodes on Martin Sostre, JoNina Abron-Ervin, Afro-pessimism, and Black queer and trans liberation, we highlight histories and experiences too often erased or distorted. For us, memory is strategy: documenting radical lives, reflecting on grief and joy, and showing how vulnerability and care are essential to sustaining movements. By combining historical context with emotional clarity, we hope to equip our listeners with both knowledge and the tools to endure and resist.

We also focus on practical strategies for building autonomy and solidarity in the present. Episodes on Black capitalism, digital security, and global struggles such as Palestine demonstrate how collective safety, mutual aid, and transnational solidarity are not just ideas but actionable practices. Through our format—unpolished, conversational, and decentralized—we mirror the movements we discuss, proving that media can be part of movement infrastructure. In every episode, we strive to turn listening into organizing, archives into tools, and conversation into a space for building the Black anarchist imagination that has long lacked a public platform.