I recently read Anna’s, incredible book, “Tear Gas — From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today”, that tells the story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets. In this conversation, we speak about her work, how she came to write the history of tear gas, as both the history of state violence and resistance.

I asked Anna for five things that have influenced her intellectual and political journeys, and she picked

1. Donna Haraway – Cyborg Manifesto 

2. Adrienne Rich – Cartographies of Silence (poem)

3. Capitalism is the Crisis Banner 

4. Woomera Fence