The Future of Money
The class traitors giving away their wealth, mutual aid networks, queer community on the internet, and more
October 28, 2021
What’s Common Sense About Fifty Million Dollars?
“It’s okay to say ‘I come from a wealthy family’ or ‘I have access to this money.’ The important thing is figuring out what you’re going to do about it.” Sociologist Rachel Sherman chats with Guillermina Altomonte about the rich “class traitors” redistributing their wealth and challenging cultural taboos. (October 27, 2021)
Capitalism Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Imagine a better post-pandemic future, and you’ll find that mutual aid organizing is already there, Molly Ragan argues. “From anti-eviction support and distribution of goods, to childcare for essential workers and assistance navigating unemployment applications, informal mutual aid networks have facilitated a range of initiatives to support local communities in distress.” (October 27, 2021)
Bolsonaro’s Bluster
“Bolsonaro seems to be mainly guided by his approval ratings. He’s turned out to be more like a windsock than a powerful demagogue—a man at the mercy of outside political forces, willy-nilly blown this way and that.” Felippe Ramos examines the Brazilian president’s attempts at authoritarianism. (October 26, 2021)
Most Quoted Man
“Baldwin often wrote about love, but his notion of love was a complex, wrenching notion of acceptance born of confrontational truth-telling.” The New School’s Justin A. Joyce joins Douglas Fields and Cora Kaplan in discussing why James Baldwin is the most cited literary figure in the Movement for Black Lives. (October 27, 2021)
Hacking Gender
In an interview with Public Seminar, New School author A.E. Osworth chats about depicting gamer culture from a queer perspective in their debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright. “Part of the process of writing this book involved spending a lot of time reading Reddit and ingesting how those folks talk to each other, how they make myth, and how they create the narrative of their own existence.” (October 25, 2021)
Read an excerpt from We Are Watching Eliza Bright, out now from Grand Central Publishing. (October 25, 2021)