Submissions should be between 800-1500 words and can take the form of essays, interviews, opinion pieces, or creative non-fiction.
Please send your submissions to [email protected] by March 18th, 2024. We look forward to reading your work and engaging with your ideas.
7) What is the opposite of disaster capitalism, or how do we rebuild what’s been destroyed w/o capitalism?
We Invite thoughtful, critical, and engaging submission that explore these questions and contribute to the ongoing conservation around Black liberation movements.
3) Why is joining an organization important? Or, is joining an organization important?
4) What does it mean to be serious about Black Struggle?
5) How do we prevent the same failures?
6) What are the alternatives to “pushing the democrats left?”
1) What did we learn from 2020? What is the next step toward the right direction?
2) How are Black people understanding/made to understand what they are up against? Or, what are we as Black people up against?
A thread LEFT OUT Magazine is making an open call for submissions related to either of the following questions regarding movements for Black liberation:
LOM editor @prettyantelope analyzes the 2020 global uprising, and the manifestation of a global awakening linked to the oppression of the entire working class.
https://t.co/lKsen9W4a9
In many ways, today, we are in the thick of a political and ideological backlash against the progressive movements of the last few years, particularly, the BLM Movement.
Activist, writer, and geography scholar Khury Petersen-Smith describes 2020 as a year of revolt, with Black struggle throughout the Diaspora connecting the dots between racism and the foundation of the world economy. "Black Politics Around the Diaspora"
https://t.co/ORw2mGKT0q
Biden's inauguration speech argued for "unity," a tried & true Dem Party response to the extremes of the far right. LOM editor Alyx Goodwin examines the inherent hypocrisy & racism of this "unity" as it fails to address the inequality of capitalism.
https://t.co/bcUPDt0eay
Yesterday, the @WashingtonPost published a dangerous piece of copaganda centered around @MayorBowser’s proposal to increase MPD’s budget & staffing.
The article starts by claiming that the DC council defunded MPD in response to the uprising. This is a lie. THREAD👉🏽
The ctu may refuse to do in person learning on Wed., pending a vote of members on Tues. and a vote if elected reps on Tues. afternoon. The mayor and sch district would then have to decide: lock teachers out of virtual classes or go remote.
Wow, Enis Jevric, the officer that murdered An'Twan Gilmore is also a real estate agent for Samson Realty selling overpriced property all over DC.
The connection between police violence and gentrification continues
“DC Police have taken another Black life for no F’n reason other than he was in another gentrified area of city where he shouldn’t have been scaring the white people”
Protester explains direct connection b/t gentrification & MPD murder @luqmannation1#AntwanGilmore#GeorgeWatson