I’m Jay Baker. My pronouns are he/him or they/them.

I’m a former guerrilla videographer currently working in communications and community education, and as a freelance facilitator. I’m also an unpaid carer for my partner, who has LongCOVID. I’m a member of both the IWW and Acorn renters’ union. I live in Park Hill, Sheffield, in the UK. I’d like to think of myself as harnessing a spirit of “Edward Carpenter-meets-Édouard Carpentier”!

I was pulled from school as a child and taught at home by my mother to whom I credit for my intersectional feminism. I have over twenty years of experience working for social justice – applying the DIY “punk” ethic to making documentaries, writing books, organising anti-fascist events, and helping to launch and run community projects in both Britain and North America – where I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited to speak, chair, and MC at festivals, conferences, and events from Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) and Huddersfield University (UK) to the Non-Violence Festival (Canada) and the Festival of Debate (UK).

I’ve written for Now Then, The Scavenger, and the award-winning zine La Bouche, amongst other websites, zines, and newspapers, and appeared numerous times for the BBC whilst writing for established commercial newspapers before I made the personal (and political) decision to completely boycott establishment media. I co-founded, and coached at, the left-wing football club AFC Unity for nearly 7 years.

This website features both my personal blog as well as my political analysis, a “manifesto” for media activism, and some digital resources.

I’m currently working on a mobile app to aggregate reliable news sources (you can see a list to the right/bottom of this page), trying to add to my stash of videos on Kolektiva, and am also keen to help develop a network of local radical media hubs as a counter to establishment media.

In what’s left of my spare time, when I’m not playing around with Linux while drinking too much coffee, or reading comic books, I can usually be found working on The Left Fist coverage of pro wrestling from a pro-union/leftist angle in written and podcast form. I love pop culture references, and am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass (and I’m all out of bubblegum).

Tips appreciated.

For enquiries, email me.

Like my work? You can support me at Liberapay.