Is Leftist Media “Armchair Activism?" (Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club ep6)

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.<br /><br />Links:<br />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<br /><a href="https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/feminism-and-war-confronting-us-imperialism/introduction-feminism-and-us-wars-mapping-the-ground" rel="noopener">https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/feminism-and-war-confronting-us-imperialism/introduction-feminism-and-us-wars-mapping-the-ground</a><br /><br />Everyone’s Place: Organizing, Gendered Labor, and Leadership by William C Anderson<br /><a href="https://offshootjournal.org/everyones-place-organizing-gendered-labor-and-leadership/" rel="noopener">https://offshootjournal.org/everyones-place-organizing-gendered-labor-and-leadership/</a><br /><br />We do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba<br /><a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us" rel="noopener">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us</a><br /><br />And interview about abolition and writing: <a href="https://forgeorganizing.org/article/practicing-imagination" rel="noopener">https://forgeorganizing.org/article/practicing-imagination</a><br /><br />Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore<br /><a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything" rel="noopener">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything</a><br /><br />Party as Articulator, Salar Mohandesi in Viewpoint Magazine<br /><a href="https://viewpointmag.com/2020/09/04/party-as-articulator/" rel="noopener">https://viewpointmag.com/2020/09/04/party-a