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This week I wanted to highlight some of my favorite but less loved pieces of the last 7 months. Sometimes the algorithm doesn’t work to our favor, but these pieces are some of the ones that have meant the most to me. I hope you enjoy!
This was my first ever post on Substack and it was a reaction to seeing a left that often likes to brag about their lack of empathy.
To Save The World: More Empathy, Not Less
As the world becomes more undone by the excesses of capital heightening contradictions to the point where the crises of climate change, imperialism, deprivation of the working class, and public health all intersect, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on the left that can only be described as “impotent spite”. The way this seems to manifest is in people che…
This one is about the future that was promised and never delivered
The Future Sucks
When I was young - an amount of years ago that you shouldn’t worry yourself about - people were obsessed with the future. Star Trek was still on TV, Back to the Future was a cultural touchpoint. People loved to imagine a futuristic utopia right around the corner. Someday, soon, we’d have flying cars,…
I wrote this about letting your broken heart light your way in a broken world
I wrote this one because I think the path to a better world is in our commitment to one another
We Owe Each Other Everything
We live in a broken world. We are divided, fractured, isolated, unraveling at the seams. We feel angry, disillusioned, disconnected. We hate our neighbors, we worship money, we are obsessed with temporary pleasures, we distrust strangers. We are like this in large part because we live in a society that exalts the individual over the collective. In fact,…
Here are a few more that I hope you’ll give a chance:
People Have Rights, States Have None
This year’s New York City mayoral primary has yet again exposed the contradictions of the US support for Israel’s genocidal ethnocracy and the media’s complicity in laundering its lies. Young, socialist, charismatic, immigrant, Muslim, Zohran Mamdani has been within striking distance of credibly accused sexual predator and grandma killer Andrew Cuomo, a…
Language of the Unheard
You can hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper right now without being bombarded with the hagiographies of the the two low-level Israeli diplomats that were shot in D.C. last Wednesday. They were about to be engaged. They were “peace loving” people. They were young. They had dreams. The empire paints a picture of two people who they, by virtu…
The Purpose of Protest
There is a March on Washington for Palestine taking place this Saturday that has reignited a longstanding debate among activists about the purpose of protests. This debate centers on whether they have any purpose at all. Critics say that these protests have failed to move the needle on this genocide, failed to stop a single bombing, are too orderly, too…
Losing What You Never Had
One of my earliest memories was when I was six years old and writing in my diary about how sad I was about how much time had gone by and how I’d never get that time back. As silly as it might sound, for someone so young to have such a sense of melancholy about these things, with their whole life ahead of them, that feeling never quite left me. The passa…
Thank you for being here and I’ll see you next week!
-Scarlet
Keep up the phenomenal work Scarlet! Thank you for everything that you do and for putting in the time and effort to make these pieces some of the best out there!