Strategy and efficiency

We believe is essential to understand our situation and forces at hand, to decide what action we take and whether it will be effective – and how to judge if it is having impact. If we don’t apply this materialist analysis lens, we risk doing things we imagine, or wish for, or fancy, or find easy (or worse, trendy), rather than what gets us closer to the goal. And it’s okay if we fuck up or find out that when we put our understandings to the test in real life something unexpected or lousy comes out. We can only learn through doing and reflecting, then doing again.

Prickly Pears do not vibe with typical activism, consisting mostly of mobilising in response, loose organising for often one-off events, and theoretical awareness-raising as main tools. Whilst there is a lot of merit and usefulness to some lived examples of these activities, we got together wanting long-term, thought-out, fundamentally impactful political work. Work that both weakens patriarchal grip and create alternatives we can live through and show others the way – and make us want to be alive.