Up now at @readlux.bsky.social: I wrote about the tensions between family abolition and family policing abolition, and how they could be overcome, via a review of SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN: lux-magazine.com/article/soli...
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The publishing house in the back of a bar, that's us! Check out this @nymag.com @curbed.com piece about our office in the back of The Francis Kite Club, ft @readlux.bsky.social our office mate www.curbed.com/article/fran...
The Bar That’s an Office 4 Days a Week
The Francis Kite Club was closed until 5 p.m. Lux Magazine and OR Books needed a place to work.
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For the latest Lux for Life newsletter, editor-in-chief Sarah Leonard interviews contributing editor Molly Crabapple about the Jewish Bund and her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Subscribe to the newsletter on our website, and read the full interview
Look at what the good folks @readlux.bsky.social are doing as an example. They don't have the big money behind them that Turning Points has and they are still doing this. Why can't others do the same? They can.
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 5mo ago3 yrs ago DeSantis and Chris Rufo piloted the academic repression we've seen across the country at Florida's very queer public lib arts college to fight the "feminization" of higher ed. they ended the gender studies program, fired professors, and 1/8th of the student body left. @us.theguardian.com
What @readlux.bsky.social is doing is beautiful, and we love to see @lexmcmenamin.com covering it as only they can ♥️
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 5mo ago3 yrs ago DeSantis and Chris Rufo piloted the academic repression we've seen across the country at Florida's very queer public lib arts college to fight the "feminization" of higher ed. they ended the gender studies program, fired professors, and 1/8th of the student body left. @us.theguardian.com
The campus is the main battleground of America’s free-speech wars – so Lux is hitting the road for our first college campus tour. Read about it in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Are you subscribed to Lux for Life, our free newsletter? For this week's edition, Jordan Taliha McDonald considers Paul Thomas Anderson's version of Perfidia Beverly Hills alongside other representations of Black women negotiating revolution and betrayal lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life/
Since the fall of 2024, the so-called ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel has meant relative peace and safety for residents of the capital, Beirut. But in the south, Lylla Younes writes, “residents encountered a vastly different reality” where “Israeli drones raked the skies"
Here's your evening read! For Issue 15, Jeanelle K. Hope shows black feminists have always fought fascism, and what lessons we can take forward today from our last. Subscribe now to read it online, or get the issue in print on our website ✨ lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
*~ READ IT ONLINE NOW *~ "Enshittification endows the oldest capitalist impulses with the shiniest twenty-first-century tools." For Issue 15, Michelle Santiago Cortés reviews Joana Walsh and Cory Doctorow's books about why the internet is falling apart. lux-magazine.com/article/inte...
*~ READ IT ONLINE NOW *~ For Issue 15, Danielle Mackey reviews Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's National Book Award winner "We are Greennajd Trembling", which reimagines the Spanish conquest of the Americas and lets the jungle win. lux-magazine.com/article/gree...
Are you subscribed to Lux for Life, our free newsletter? For last week's edition, Lux editor Natalie Adler reminds us what Wuthering Heights is really all about. Subscribe on our website to get the newsletter in your inbox, and read it online now on our website lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...
Baby it's cold as hell outside -- get a lil hoodie to keep you warm during this winter snap. Order an Anti-Work hoodie from our store using code COLD for 10% off. This code is available this weekend only, so order your hoodies by Sunday Feb 1, at 11:59pm ET☃️🥶 lux-magazine.com/products/ant...
*~ OUT NOW ~* "These women are called the “angel moms,” and they claim that their children were killed by undocumented immigrants." For Issue 15, Katya Schwenk writes about the women who turn their tragedies into propaganda for ICE Read it online, or get the issue in print on our website.
In case you missed it, FAWN'S BLOOD author @halschrieve.bsky.social reviews Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel for @readlux.bsky.social. Read here: lux-magazine.com/article/bech...
Bechdel Beyond Bechdel
In Spent, the memoirist looks for the new queer zeitgeist but can't see past herself.
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I wrote for @readlux.bsky.social on nativist mothers and border vigilantes lux-magazine.com/article/ange...
Grief and Glocks
“Angel moms” spin tragedy into anti-immigrant propaganda.
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"Not great self-feeder, but the LICKS. "I’m pro-bald." "Good feeder, but not convinced on the look" - comments from the Gerber baby casting call @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/cast...
Making Babies
We were selling baby food and the American dream — I wrote the script.
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Proud to have contributed a bit to this wonderful @readlux.bsky.social contemporary update of the classic 1941 “Who Goes Nazi?” essay
Who Goes Fascist?
New answers to an old question.
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For Issue 15, the Lux editors and our friends guess which people are gonna fold and enthusiastically lick ICE boots, and which people won't ever go fash. Tag yourself 👀 Subscribe to read it online, or get the issue in print on our website. ✨ Art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
👀 TOMORROW, 9/20 join Lux editor Cheryl Rivera and writer Alyssa Battistoni in a discussion about organizing strategies for the age of climate disaster. 629 Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn 7pm Free!
I wrote an article for @readlux.bsky.social about my time at the Tom of Finland Foundation and the complexity of Tom's legacy. Here's a gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/tom-...
Morally Erect
The Tom Finland Foundation's soft spot for Nazi symbols raises hard questions.
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Really thrilled to have a piece in @readlux.bsky.social, just in time for the Serrano-Taylor fight tonight. lux-magazine.com/article/wome...
Left Hook
Fascism, gender policing, and the unlikely rise of women's boxing.
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“If I am there in the Palestinians’ name, I take it as a badge of honor. I am not sorry.” Published in partnership with @readlux.bsky.social and @hammerandhope.bsky.social, we spoke with Georgetown's Dr. Badar Khan Suri about his ICE detention: www.acaciamag.com/web/badar-kh...
Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out
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We’ll be launching the book in person with events in February, starting at the Poetry Project in NYC on the 21st with collective members and interviewees, co-sponsored by @readlux.bsky.social. More info to come