Red Emma’s

Based on extensive historical research Tauno’s book of fiction, THE ANATOMIST'S TALE, weaves a story of rebellion and resistance to imagine a tropical commune of pirates, maroons and indigenous people. Come join a facilitated conversation on how the rich palette of history can inform our own work towards a more just and equitable future.

Tauno Biltsted - Former cab driver, Lower East Side squatter, mediator and facilitator, decent plumber and electrician, fiction and non-fiction writer. Tauno’s first novel, THE ANATOMIST'S TALE, a speculative historical fiction about pirates and maroons who form a tropical commune, was published by Lanternfish Press in 2020. Tauno has published short stories with Rosebud Magazine, with Akashic Books Mondays are Murder webseries, and written for World War III Illustrated, and on black labor history and the IWW for Verso Books. Tauno recently published an article on consensus democracy, “Black Sheep of all Classes” with the Institute for Anarchist Studies.