COMMUNITY
FLUX · The US Left's relationship with Media in 2020
VOL. 1
EVENT
Pessimism on the left in the wake of movement dissipation, reckoning with movement mistakes, & how to think about leftist media.
BHAVIK LATHIA
· JAYA RAJAMANI
FLUX: An Evening in Dissent
FLUX was held at a depressing moment for media workers on the left: all "doomers", as Jaya Rajamani referred to herself at the time. Despite the Democrats winning the White House, dispiriting cabinet appointments by to-be President Biden, especially in the wake of the loss of Bernie Sanders' primary campaign left a sense of a weak Left with the dissipation of progressive movement energy by the end of 2020. Non-Fiction Editor Tisya Mavuram convened with writers, activists, and organizers Bhavik Lathia and Jaya Sundaresh to discuss how to rebuild power, the Left's relationship to media, how centrists managed to defeat a historic challenge in the form of Sanders' campaign, and a reckoning with mistakes made.
Tarfia Faizullah: Poetry Reading
Jaishri Abichandani's Art Studio Tour
Natasha Noorani's Live Performance of "Choro"
Nikil Saval & Kshama Sawant: On Movement Politics at the Local & Municipal Level, COVID-19 & the Two-Party Structure
Rajiv Mohabir: Poetry Reading
SAAG, So Far: A Panel with the Editors
DJ Kiran: A Celebratory Set
SUB-HEAD
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
SHEBANI RAO
A Freelancer's Guide to Decision-Making
JAMIL JAN KOCHAI
A Premonition; Recollected
Watch the event in full on IGTV.
Event
Panel
Bernie Sanders
Progressive Politics
Democratic Socialism
Democratic Socialists of America
DSA
Digital Advocacy
Digital Space
Funny Twitter Accounts
Optimism on the Local Level
Joe Biden
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Democrats
Municipal Politics
State Senate
United States
Progressivism
Black Solidarities
Demographics
Populism
Progressive Populism
Inevitability
Doomers
Wisconsin as an Electoral Knife's Edge
White Supremacy
Fascism
Republican Vote
The History of the Right-Wing
Trump's Base
Errors in the Bernie Sanders Campaign
Woke Politics
Coalition Building
Media
Growth of Left Media
Leftist Media
Twitch
Podcasts
Liberals
Breitbart
Billionaire-Funded Media
Messaging
Status Quo
BHAVIK LATHIA is a writer and organizer, currently Senior Digital Director for the Democratic Party of Wisconisn (WI-Dems).
JAYA RAJAMANI (previously published as Jaya Sundaresh) is a freelance writer, socialist activist, and writer of Time for Jaya, a newsletter about life, politics, art, love, the internet, and the terrible (and wonderful) things we do to each other when trying to improve the world. She has written for Current Affairs, and The Forward, among others.
5 Dec 2020
Event
Panel
FLUX · A Preface
5 Dec 2020
KAMIL AHSAN · DIVYA NAYAR · VISHAKHA DARBHA
Universalism & Solidarity in a Post-Roe Landscape
23 Feb 2023
THE VERTICAL
Exhaustion & Emancipation
10 Mar 2021
BOOKS & ARTS
MORE LIKE THIS
