Is Leftist Media “Armchair Activism?"

The Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club

This month, Tamsyn and Paniz are joined by Cheryl Rivera from Lux Magazine and Daniel Sarah Karasik from Midnight Sun Magazine to talk about why we need more socialist media. They discuss the relationship between writing and organizing, how their magazines try to reach existing and potential comrades, and making media that focuses on representing possibilities instead of changing minds.
Links:
Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism, edited by Robin L. Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, including an essay by Berta Joubert-Ceci
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/feminism-and-war-confronting-us-imperialism/introduction-feminism-and-us-wars-mapping-the-ground
Everyone’s Place: Organizing, Gendered Labor, and Leadership by William C Anderson
https://offshootjournal.org/everyones-place-organizing-gendered-labor-and-leadership/
We do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
And interview about abolition and writing: https://forgeorganizing.org/article/practicing-imagination
Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything
Party as Articulator, Salar Mohandesi in Viewpoint Magazine
https://viewpointmag.com/2020/09/04/party-as-articulator/
Fascism is as Canadian as the the Maple Leaf by Todd Gordon in Midnight Sun
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/
Graeme Lamb, Storytelling for Power
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/storytelling-for-power/
Jennifer Wilson interview with Raven Leilani
https://lux-magazine.com/article/raven-leilani-needs-to-know-how-her-characters-pay-rent/
Ursula LeGuin The Dispossessed
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/dispossessed
Desmond Cole talking about Replay podcast and copaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xpaEfC2WI&t=2s&ab_channel=CommunicationSpeaks
Replay podcast: https://www.pedagogyandpraxis.com/replaypodcast
Leftist Media recommended in this episode:
Briarpatch Magazine: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/
The Breach: https://breachmedia.ca/
The Hoser: https://www.thehoser.ca/
Partisan Magazine: https://partisanmag.com/
Tempest Magazine: https://www.tempestmag.org/about/