@LovesTha @ljwrites well i think the media reads and speaks in the language it knows and of course it’s usually a white media and so its definition of political action and activity will be one which follows particular white norms. intentionally or not, i think a lot of the other stuff just doesn’t get seen.

but i think if you break out of that mould a little and listen to organizers or journalists or theorists who belong to and are writing from within these racialized communities, you do see that stuff get picked up on a lot more. and instead of talking about Organizations you might hear people talking about events maybe, or you’ll have individual ideas attributed to individual people in the community as much as you will a coherent Political Platform. or you might have a zine that one group puts out which is really influential! there are some very important zines that are just like, a group of friends meeting and chilling and figuring things out.

it's not impossible, or even hard, for the media to report on zines or events or community trends of thought. but it doesn't really have the vocabulary for it? there’s no way of mapping it onto the white political model which sees politics and personal life as these cleanly delineated categories, and expects the former to take the shape of like, an Organization with a Board or Leadership that issues PR statements or whatever. i think it just gets lost, or you wind up with some bad miscommunications because the media is trying to pin an organization or figurehead to something which is really much more natural and organic.