Writers Bloc disrupted this morning's Macy Parade in Manhattan, with demonstrators rushing the street ahead of the Ronald McDonald float and unfurling a banner that read "Genocide Then, Genocide Now, Free Palestine." ✊
This was a public lynching. The NYPD allowed the murderer to walk because this city has long treated its most neglected residents as disposable, and because being black and poor is being increasingly criminalized under Eric Adams
Jordan Neely deserved better. We all do
A White man has been released without charges after killing a Black man on an NYC subway train, after he held him in a chokehold for *15 minutes.*
Passengers said the deceased man had been yelling that he was tired and needed something to eat and drink.
Lux is a new feminist magazine for the masses. The fantasy of the girl boss is dead.
We want more than capitalism offers: to suffer or exploit, to climb the ladder or knuckle under. We don't want what we've been offered.
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Fuck the police, but we didn't mean literally!
Now online, Katie Way dives into the world of Cop Wife TikTok, where the kids are named Wyatt and Remington, the cookies are frosted Blue Lives Matter navy, and the husbands are murderous absentees
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Atlanta is arresting people who fundraise for bail and provide legal support to the Stop Cop City protestors. This is outright intimidation and a fascist attempt to bury dissent and any networks that help dissenters.
We have to fight
Every single member of the media needs to be asking
@andreforatlanta
and
@Atlanta_Police
how they possibly justify arresting those providing legal support for protesters. This is really really outrageous and they must be released immediately.
Clinton exemplifies a white, liberal and toothless feminism when she claims Giorgia Meloni's election as Italy's prime minister would be a break from the past. Fascism, whether dressed up with a feminine face or not, is a regression
We prepared this free abortion resource with
@VersoBooks
with contributions from activists all over the world.
As the US has slipped backward, feminists across Latin America have found ways to move forward. We’re not alone.
“Road to Terfdom” by
@katiejmbaker
is a wild ride through how a message board for mums turned into a hub of TERF activity.
She notes the similarities to MRAs who get “red-pilled”
While you're waiting on Lux Issue 2, check out articles from Issue 1.
"To a Soviet citizen, the idea that wearing perfume or drinking champagne were somehow uniquely incompatible with communism would have been nonsensical."
@JenLouiseWilson
writes:
"What I’m bucking against is the attempt to shoehorn every kind of power into one sort of power. I’m just trying to get us to be as attentive to power dynamics within groups as we are to power dynamics between them"
@OlufemiOTaiwo
on bad identity politics
"We need to re-learn how to perform abortions, how to support one another in getting them, how to make the lives of pro-life politicans and prosecutors hell, and how to organize local power. We cannot wait for the foundations and the national politicians to do it for us"
Sometimes I can't believe that political orgs and candidates are taking advice on how to talk about abortion from the very consultants who told us we were being hysterical by saying Roe could fall. How are the same people who didn't see this moment coming calling the shots now?
✨COMING ON 6/15✨
A new ebook from Lux and
@VersoBooks
on the fight for abortion. As the loss of the federal right to abortion looms, this collection of essays describes what a fighting movement for reproductive justice must look like in order to win ✊
psst, here's a lil treat from Issue 7: early access to our interview with
@ArielaBarer
, star of the incredible How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Ariela spoke to us about the politics of aesthetics, her radicalization and on not being a doomer
Read it now 👁️⬇️
Issue 6 is out and we've got it all: the future of the fight against debt, a view from the stripper strike in North Hollywood, redneck mutual aid in Alabama, a new tart recipe, deconstruction of the degrowth and GND debate, the end of the BBL era, Chelsea Manning and MORE
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Fuck a day of mourning - aid and abet. If someone attacks us, we have the right to fight back.
Find your local abortion fund, work with your union, correctly label a crisis pregnancy center, educate yourself re groups on the ground, get less governable.
"There is no resistance to capitalism that has not been met with batons. The dreams of abolitionists are thus essential to the triumph of socialism - no less realistic, no less fundamental, than creating a unified class of workers"
@girlcloudnine
for Lux
"As we experience profound changes to the landscape of reproductive (in)justice in the U.S., we must throw out the fears of the pre-Roe back alley and replace it with the defiant autonomy of SMA"
Everyone should know how to get a medication abortion!
We beat the sophomore slump; year 2 of Lux was a great one. We published 3 issues -- that's a lot of great writing. Here's our top 5 most-read articles available online 👁️
get in loser we're making left media
Join us for a community happy hour with local writers, editors, and artists. Masks will be provided. Please test in advance 👁️✨💕
@HammerandHope
@zenithcoop
Astra and Sunaura Taylor make a powerful case for a why socialist feminists should be vegans, and how reproductive exploitation of animals relates to capital's coercion and control of human labor and reproductive capacities in Issue 3
From our archive 👁️
"When I would watch the news about the Sandinistas, I didn’t see a threat, I saw people that looked like me. And I just felt such a deep sense of solidarity"
@GrimKim
profiles Bhairavi Desai, head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, for Lux
There are examples from around the world in what to do when abortion access is under attack, the time is for organizing and fighting back, not despairing
In Mexico 🇲🇽 when abortion rights were up for debate they marched to the presidential palace & attempted to burn it down. The Mexican government quickly decriminalized Abortion nationwide soon after that.
In the post-Roe world, people turn to Planned Parenthood for leadership. But how can an org that doesn't respect labor lead the reproductive justice movement?
From Issue 2,
@amylittlefield
reports on Planned Parenthood workers' struggle to unionize
In Issue 6,
@StrikeDebt
organizer
@EleniSchirmer
tells us she's "organizing for the world beyond debt...Debt is the cost we all pay for not having public, democratic, reparative social goods to begin with. What are the debts we actually owe each other?"
We're looking for a PT copy editor for our next issue. The work is flexible + self-directed, starts immediately. Min 1 year experience mag copy editing, familiarity with Lux and AP style preferred. $30/hr. Email pitches
@lux
-magazine.com w COPY EDITING in the subject line.
The fight for abortion access is not a one time rally, we must show up again and again to defend ourselves. For those in NYC,
@nycforabortion
has regular counterprotests of anti abortion groups and crisis centers. Join them this Saturday morning
THIS SATURDAY @ 8:30am! While SCOTUS is deliberating on our bodily autonomy, we're going to keep protecting ourselves and our clinics. we want to show antis that they're not welcome here, and to show patients/providers/staff that they're loved. Please come out! 💚🌈💚
Mike Davis pushed for an LA that centered “the young people of color who are Los Angeles’s future,” those who “will be genuine successors to grandmothers and grandfathers who so long ago raised their clenched fists and demanded power to the people.”
RIP✊
Only by broadening a socialist feminist analysis beyond the human can we fully grasp the depth of capitalism’s dependence upon the enclosure, control, and privatization of life’s regenerative capacities
@astradisastra
and
@sunaura_taylor
for Lux Issue 3
You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Happy International Women's Day!
Lux celebrates women's history all month (all year even) but today is extra special. In commemoration, we're offering 25% off new subscriptions all week!
Subscribe with code D22IWD or visit the link 💫
New week, new Lux material - we've launched a newsletter! Come for socialist feminist analysis, stay for socialist feminist gossiping. Lux subscribers, check your inboxes 👀 Not subscribed? Sign up for the newsletter here
"Why write bisexual characters if you don’t let them have queer sex? You can talk to your friend about bisexuality, but you can’t eat her pussy?"
Lux editor Natalie Adler
@natalieayay
asks the hard questions about Sally Rooney's novels
Online now ✨
Issue 8 has launched! Featuring an interview with academic Joy James; a meditation on Bridgerton's daddy issues; and abortion coverage from El Salvador, Palestine, Croatia, NYC, and the American prison system; and more!
Subscribe to get it ✨👁️
There's a lot going on right now: attacks on trans people ramping up, a people's defense against Cop City and environmental destruction in Atl, the future of student debt forgiveness in balance
We're gonna need more independent media and organized collectives. Plug in 👁️
"I am led to the edge of an apocalypse where the sole survivor of the blast, the plague, the fade, the revolt, is work."
For Lux Issue 6,
@camelmyrrh
critiques the modern work novel where discontent is common and rebellion unheard of
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A senior neighbor in Crown Heights has been dispossessed of her home and all her belongings in a serious case of elder abuse. She was also held against her will for 2 months. We're asking for help to get her back on her feet, this is an urgent situation
Was Queen Elizabeth II a feminist?
As the world reflects upon her legacy after the death of Britain’s longest-serving monarch, the question is a matter of debate.
In Issue 2 of Lux,
@amylittlefield
goes deep on the struggle to unionize Planned Parenthood in Texas amid the pandemic and abortion bans. Join Amy,
@ReproJobs
and some of the organizers she interviewed for a discussion of the challenges facing workers at feminist non-profits.
If you ride heavy for Rosa, Audre, Sylvia, Marsha, Angela, Lucy, Frida, bell, Silvia, Clara, Assata, Leslie, Pauli, Mariarosa, Vivian, Lorraine and Emma… Lux Magazine is for you
Get ready; Lux Magazine launches in January 2021.
Coming up in our 1st issue: inside the anti-carceral feminist movement in Mexico fighting for collective reparations for victims of sexual assault, by Danielle Mackey
Art by
@sofiaclausse
A good reason to subscribe to Lux: to get wild with us at our first holiday party!
12/15, 7pm to midnight, the Verso loft (iconic, we know), subscribers get in free 👁️
Fuck a rat czar, we stan the garbage man
From our archive, a feminist reading on artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles's project to contextualize sanitation work as care work
It's more important than ever that we build independent publications and figure out how we sustain them
What's your favorite independent mag? (obviously
#2
after us 👁️)
Join us tonight at 7pm for our online launch event! Our editors and contributors will be discussing exactly how and why we're killing the girlboss, among other things.
Streaming on FB here:
Lux will be hitting your mailboxes as soon as this weekend so it's time for a Lux Launch event! (on zoom 😅)
Join Lux editors and contributors tomorrow evening at 7pm for a casual conversation about our visions for socialist feminist. Stay tuned for the link ✨
"This was the 1970s, not a good time for women or gays in psychotherapy. Whether the therapists knew it or not, they were keepers of a culture that people like me were now rebelling against"
Vivian Gornick on hating therapy and staying in it 👁️✨⬇️
On this day, March 5, in 1871 revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg was born. Today we remember her words:
"History will do its work, see that you, too, do your work"
So far, every person arrested during Sunday night's mass arrests has been denied bond, except for the legal observer who was wearing a bright green Legal Observer hat. He had a bond set at $5k by the judge, despite even the PROSECUTOR asking for a consent bond (release w/o money)
Rise and grind, girlbosses! It's time to up your game from quiet quitting to ✨ workplace sabotage ✨
Lollygagging, shit talking your boss, stealing - Lux's guide covers it all. Remember: you don’t owe your job your best 😈
We need to build a stronger, bigger reproductive justice movement. It must be abolitionist and it must be socialist because abortion criminalization is just part of a larger project of criminalization that helps construct and maintain class divisions and control labor