Workers' Lit

2026 is an election year, and we have no intention of ignoring it!

We are joined by candidate for Governor of Georgia, Representative Ruwa Romman.

Ruwa represents GA’s 97th House of Representatives district in Gwinnett County and is the first Muslim and Palestinian woman to ever be elected to the GA House of Representatives. She is a long time organizer, served as a delegate of the Uncommitted movement in 2024, and has a plan to build an affordable, better Georgia for ALL, not just the 1%.

In this conversation we hit on hot-button issues such as internal Democratic Party conflict, police and ICE brutality, overcoming identity-based gaps in building a winning coalition, and the importance of building a mass movement that will not only bring good candidates into office, but govern alongside them and hold them accountable.

Not from Georgia? No worries, this conversation has something for everyone!

Want to read more about, donate to, and/or volunteer to the Ruwa Romman Campaign? Check out her website here!
https://www.ruwaforgeorgia.com/

Episode art comes from AP photo of Representative Ruwa Romman.

We promise we're super mature with Philip K. Dick's last name. Mostly.

This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report." What if you could solve crime before it happens? What if said process led to a lot of violence and exploitation? What if you dealt with all that that while worrying that your wife was cheating on you with your hotter assistant? That's more or less the vibe here.

We go further and discuss science fiction's broader contribution (positive and negative) to our culture's political imagination, and think about the future of the genre.

We couldn't have done this without our remarkable guests: Dalton and Dylan of The Pod Universe. If you like cool sci-fi, great podcast, and boundless creativity, you'll love their work. After all, they're making a whole cinematic universe...in podcast form!!

Check out The Pod Universe here.

Can you kill a country with hardly anyone noticing? The Trump Administration intends to try with Cuba.
In this episode we examine the criminal blockade on Cuba, and the way knowledge of it is essentially non-existent among Americans. Plus, we touch on different levels of information warfare based on class strata, Marco Rubio's plots, and...Elmo's feud with Taylor Swift??
Support the Let Cuba Live Campaign here:
https://www.letcubalive.info/
Articles quoted in this episode:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cuba-united-states-oil-blockade-trump-mexico-claudia-sheinbaum
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-is-deliberately-blocking
Elmo v. Rocco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgyAWij3SLk
Episode art features a political cartoon by Carlos Latuff

Gay. Gothic. Romantic. I know you’re already cheering, and you should be, because we’re covering Vincent Verga’s 1980 novel “Gaywyck.”

Why must breathy bodice rippers feature only the heteros? There’s plenty of good gay drama to be had, and gay drama Gaywyck delivers.

We discuss the genre of the gothic romance, the groundbreaking nature of Verga’s willingness to not pull punches, and the place weird queer fiction like this is situated in the narrative.

Cover art comes from the original publication of Gaywyck.

This is a really, really, REALLY cool guest.

Today we are joined by Talia Bhatt, writer and radical trans-feminist whose work covers epistemic injustice, Third World feminism, and ranked competitive breast growth (yes, she has RANGE!)

Want to know more? Just listen! She’ll explain it better than we can.

You can find info on all of Talia’s work (including her new book, “Brown/Trans/Les”) at her website below:

https://taliabhatt.com/