Fermentation Antifascism

Fermenting Antifascism is a presentation and hands-on workshop how lessons from fermentation can inspire antifascist practices and other strategies of resistance in a time of escalating violence, authoritarianism, and social fragmentation.
Drawing on microbial life, we ask: what can bacteria, yeast, and fungi teach us about transformation, interdependence, and survival under hostile conditions? How might these lessons help us resist fascist forces not only through opposition, but by fermenting new ways of organising together? The project began in Autumn 2025 as a long-term research process, using fermentation as both metaphor and practice to explore forms of organising that do not reproduce systems of domination, purity, or control.
Fermentation offers a counter-logic to fascist ideology:
where fascism suppresses life, fermentation multiplies it;
where fascism fears difference, fermentation thrives on it;
where fascism clings to purity and rigid identity, fermentation cultivates symbiosis,
contamination, interdependence, and queer temporalities.
In this short workshop, we share key insights from the past six months of research, alongside a simple, accessible fermentation practice—inviting participants to engage these ideas together , materially, relationally, and creatively.