The Starshine Essays Vol. I - Second Edition

The Starshine Essays gathers the political writings and addresses of M. R. Framboise, a student activist and theorist based in New Orleans. Works in the first volume cover fall 2025 to spring 2026. These essays blend rigorous Marxist analysis with lived experience of campus organizing, exploring the interconnections between power, identity, and revolutionary transformation. Framboise examines student power as an engine of social change, interrogates liberal frameworks of identity through a materialist lens, and articulates a vision of victory rooted in collective struggle and human dignity. Whether analyzing CIA interventions, theorizing transness and Blackness as revolutionary synthesis, or calling out careerism within movements, her work refuses the false separation between theory and practice. These pieces speak directly to organizers, activists, and anyone grappling with how movements are built, how identity functions under capitalism, and what liberation actually requires. They are grounded in concrete struggle—rallies, campaigns, direct action—while reaching toward broader questions of justice, state power, and social transformation. The Starshine Essays is required reading for those seeking to understand contemporary student activism and the resurgence of revolutionary thought among a new generation of organizers.