Cohousing-L Mailing List: Communities #207 currently available for free viewing/download, plus new Call for Articles

[Chris Roth - Communities Editor (editor]

Hello,

Thanks to donor generosity, Communities//207, Summer 2025, Breaking the 
Spell, iscurrently available for free in digital form 
athttps://www.gen-us.net/sample. (You can also order a print copy 
athttps://www.gen-us.net/207and subscribe 
athttps://www.gen-us.net/subscribe.) Several cohousers contributed 
writing. Here's a summary:

Communities 
#207(https://www.gen-us.net/communities-207-breaking-the-spell) explores 
ways that communitarians are challenging and finding alternatives to 
thought patterns, lifeways, and habits of relating that keep us from 
realizing our cooperative potential and risk sleepwalking us off of 
metaphorical cliffs. Two reflections on Hurricane Helene unveil some of 
the storm’s many lessons; stories profile intentional communities that 
serve the wider world and act as agents of change as they question car 
culture, dwelling size and style, and ecophobia; authorsexamine how the 
dominant society impacts cooperative efforts, as well as groups’ power 
(sometimes embraced, sometimes not) to engage in solidarity work, racial 
equity work, and cultural reinvention; articles look at how to navigate 
polarization, channel fear usefully, and prepare effectively for a 
post-collapse economy. Friends, family, colleagues, and students also 
rememberLaird Schaub, whose contributions to the communities movement 
involved confronting many illusions and misconceptions head-on and 
empowering others to do the same.

Please also check out https://www.gen-us.net/submit for the Call for 
Articles for issue #209, Winter 2025: "CommunITy or DystopAIa?: 
Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Intentional 
Community." We welcome article proposals/submissions!

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