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A hand drawn plant in pinks, purples, and blues, sits wilting atop a pile of money bundles. The plant has two leaves and a rotting fruit. Another leaf lies on the ground. The plant is dying... because it's growing in money. Get it? The background is multi-colored.

It’s Not Enough to Get Paid For Your Art: Care & the Commodification of Culture

Credits: Draft by Jack Langdon & Eli Namay, developed from personal research, and notes from conversations among everyone...

Three Ways Ep. 2 – Nijmie Dzurinko, Brianna Tong, & Tori Larsen

Three Ways is a series where we invite folks doing work in different fields, roughly representing science, politics...

Read With Shred 12: Changing Venezuela

Changing Venezuela By Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chávez Government; Gregory Wilpert; 312 pgs.⁠⁠🎆🎆🎆🎆⁠⁠Good context...

Classical Traitor Ep. 1 – Lady Jess

Lady Jess, violinist extraordinaire and passionate activist for Black classical musicians, is on the show for Classical Traitor’s...

In Support of the Socialist Penguins

The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers Classical Music Accountability Subcommittee sent an open letter to Julliard’s administration...

Read With Shred 10: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Philip K. Dick; 224 pages⁠⁠🎆🎆🎆⁠I liked this significantly less than I thought...

Classical Traitor: Intro Episode

CT is a podcast about class, treachery, music, working together, standing apart, and organizing for a better cultural...

Shred Radio Ep. 15 – May Day Panel

Shred Radio hosts a panel with three labor organizers to reflect on reflect on some of the words...

Manuel Pessoa de Lima, looking quizzical, in a green 1960s bathtub

A Political History of the Colour Red

Composer and artist Manuel Pessoa de Lima talks with Jessica Aszodi about his research into the political history...

Read With Shred 8: Chavez

Chávez: Venezuela and the New Latin America; Aleida Guevara, Hugo Chávez, David Deustchmann (editor); 200 pgs⁠⁠🎆🎆🎆🎆⁠⁠⁠A good toe-dip...

Shred Radio Ep. 14 – Kedar Reddy: Creative Tech & Anti-Caste Organizing

Ruby talks with Kedar Reddy, co-founder of @organiz_org, about applying creative art to social justice, specifically in the...

Read With Shred 7: Confronting Capitalism

Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches From a Global Movement; Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose, George Katsiaficas (editors); 410 pgs⁠⁠🎆🎆🎆🎆⁠⁠This was a...

Read With Shred 6: Organizing for Social Change

Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists (4th edition),401 pgs; Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max⁠⁠🎆🎆🎆🎆⁠⁠The...

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We, Levine

James Levine is dead, and he never really suffered any consequences for spending decades sexually assaulting young boys....

Shred Radio Ep. 13 – Rami Gabriel: Psychology as Mythology

Professor and researcher, Dr. Rami Gabriel talks with Eli about his new article out in Aeon “How Psychology...

Our Lens: Shred’s Dialectical Perspective

Updated 08/16/2021. Drafted by Eli Namay from material developed in conversation with Jack Langdon & Emma Marsano. This...

Shred Radio Ep. 12 – Sean Estelle

Sean Estelle is a climate justice organizer living in Chicago, IL. They have worked with many organizations over...

Shred Radio Ep. 11 – Stephanie Skora

Stephanie Skora is a writer, educator, speaker, organizer, and non-profiteer based in Chicago, Illinois. She lives as a...

Shred Radio Ep. 10 – Jasmine Neosh

Jasmine Neosh is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation. She is also a student in the Public...

Shred Radio Ep. 9 – Ariel Atkins

Ariel Atkins chats with Ruby Pinto. The two start to unpack the nature of political and ideological labels...

Shred Radio Ep. 8 – Ruby Pinto

Eli chats with Ruby Pinto about her about the transformative process of 2020, the experiences she had during...

Shred Radio Ep. 6 – Patrick Johnson-Whitty

Patrick Johnson-Whitty chats with Ruby about the role of classical music in European colonialism, violent gentrification efforts and...

Shred Radio Ep. 5 – Clara Takarabe

Read With Shred 5: Resource Radicals

Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism; thea Riofrancos (2020, 272 pgs)⁠⁠⁠⁠Although it’s clearly an academic text (no surprises...

Read With Shred 4: Ministry For the Future

The Ministry For The Future; Kim Stanley Robinson (2020, 576 pgs)⁠⁠⁠⁠This is hard to give a short review...

Read With Shred 3: Dead Astronauts

Dead Astronauts; Jeff Vandermeer (2019, 323 pgs)⁠⁠Less of a novel than a life-world, a non-linear exploration of some...

Read With Shred 2: The Cloven

The Cloven; B. Catling (2018, 429 pgs)⁠⁠3/5 stars⁠⁠Although there were some of the most memorable scenes here across...

Jack Langdon, sitting in a chair, wearing a 'workers of the world unite' T-Shirt

Shred Radio – Ep. 4 – Jack Langdon

Jessica Aszodi, standing in front of a reflective window, wearing red lipstick, with her arm around a tuba.

Shred Radio – Ep. 3 – Jessica Aszodi

Shred Radio Ep. 2 – Emma Marsano

Shred Radio Ep. 1 – Introducing Shred

Read With Shred 1: The “S” Word

We are super excited to announce #ReadWithShred, a book review series with our great friend and comrade Sean...

shred's steering committee, in a zoom meeting

Inspirations of 2020 (with love, from the Steering Committee)

We asked some of our Shred Contributors to share with us the people, activities and communities that inspired...

Read with Shred

Shred Magazine wants folks to share thoughts on the books they’ve read! Take a picture of the book,...

Goodbye 2020 – ideas for letting loose

“Beautiful things emerge when we make space and drop expectations” – Ruby Pinto We asked our committee of scientists,...