5LL #21 - Mental Health, Demographic Shifts, Education, Designers, Social Media

Self-Care Won't Save Us
Aisling McCrea, Current Affairs 

Self-care slots in neatly with capitalism, treating mental ill-health as an individual problem divorced from material and political context, to be solved by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps and maybe spending a little money on the way.

Dear Liberals, Don't Assume People of Color Will Solve All Your Problems 
Bhaskar Sunkara, The Guardian

Tracking demographic shifts is the terrain of the right. So why do so many liberals and progressives do just that?

We Can't Educate Our Kids Out of Inequality
John Schneider, The Outline 

Better schools are not a magic bullet for fixing social problems.

More Designers and Illustrators Than Ever Are Saying, "Oh My God, Maybe I'm a Socialist." 
Meg Miller, AIGA Eye on Design

A lesson from the NYC-DSA’s Media Working Group in how to use your skills to volunteer for causes you believe in

Log Off
Benjamin Fong, Jacobin

Social media will always be destructive for the Left. We should log the fuck off.

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