Is Leftist Media “Armchair Activism?"

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