# Stay Woke Gazette

> A Black thought and culture zine that dabbles in mutual aid. Long-form pieces, dispatches and video on Black labor, Black life and the politics that shape them.

Audience: Black readers and organisers following Black thought, culture and mutual aid, and readers who want political writing from outside legacy media
Topics: Black thought and culture, mutual aid, Black labor, Black women workers, zines and independent publishing, US politics, the open social web
Published by Stay Woke Gazette (@staywokepub.blacksky.app). Long-form work is written in Offprint and stored as `site.standard.document` records in the author's own AT Protocol repository, under the publication "Stay Woke Gazette".

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## Latest documents

- [Stop being a cool online data point](https://staywokegazette.com/p/stop-being-a-cool-online-data-point/): Its the era of cringe (2026-09-01, 3 min)
- [Mutual Aid Through a Zine](https://staywokegazette.com/p/mutual-aid-through-a-zine/): I got play where we all make bread (2026-06-22, 3 min)
- [Dry, Old, and Overcrowded](https://staywokegazette.com/p/3mns62ke2hy23-dry-old-and-overcrowded/): Droughts are sweeping across the country and old infrastructure can't support data centers (2026-06-08, 3 min)
- [The Exploitation of Black Daycare Workers](https://staywokegazette.com/p/3mkaukkk7nb23-the-exploitation-of-black-daycare-workers/): Black women are being exploited through the daycare industry. Faced with systemic oppression that has been built into the fabric of American (2026-04-28, 3 min)
- [Black Iranians](https://staywokegazette.com/p/black-iranians/): The struggles we share (2026-03-22, 3 min)
- [Yesterday’s Price Is Not Today’s Price](https://staywokegazette.com/p/yesterdays-price-is-not-todays-price/): The price of Kobe's won't be dropping, but labor prices will (2026-03-01, 3 min)
- [The Klan In The Stands](https://staywokegazette.com/p/he-must-think-im-nuts/): The story of the white nationalist who admired Malcom X (2026-02-04, 5 min)
- [What's Going On? ](https://staywokegazette.com/p/whats-going-on/): Jordan is this week’s contributor to the Stay Woke publication. (2026-02-01, 3 min)
- [Lemon Pepper Steppers](https://staywokegazette.com/p/lemon-pepper-steppers/): Capitalism in the church (2026-01-18, 4 min)
- [How to Fight Back Against AI Generated Misinformation ](https://staywokegazette.com/p/how-to-fight-back-against-ai-generated/): A quick guide on how to spot AI (2026-01-09, 4 min)
- [Exiled by Pigs](https://staywokegazette.com/p/exiled-by-pigs/): People are not being deported they are being exiled. (2026-01-02, 5 min)
- [Do Black People have Allies ](https://staywokegazette.com/p/do-black-people-have-allies/): What is solidarity if everyone holds anti-blackness? (2025-12-28, 3 min)
- [Your Black Shopping Guide for the Holiday Season](https://staywokegazette.com/p/your-black-shopping-guide-for-the/): Keep it Black this holiday season with our shopping guide. (2025-11-27, 1 min)
- [Wikipedia Needs You!](https://staywokegazette.com/p/wikipedia-needs-you/): The online encyclopedia is being destroyed by AI. (2025-11-24, 4 min)
- [Striking for Who? ](https://staywokegazette.com/p/striking-for-who/): Starbucks workers are striking, but protection for Black workers are not in the demands. (2025-11-16, 2 min)
- [The 10 Cent Minimum Wage](https://staywokegazette.com/p/the-10-cent-minimum-wage/): An analysis of prison labor's effects on the American worker (2025-11-09, 5 min)
- [Radical Black Thought](https://staywokegazette.com/p/radical-black-thought/): A refresher on where our ancestors and leaders stood politically (2025-11-02, 5 min)
- [ Why I am Voting Yes on Prop 50](https://staywokegazette.com/p/why-i-am-voting-yes-on-prop-50/): On November 4th the state of California will be holding a special election for proposition 50. (2025-10-12, 2 min)
- [TikTok Sold to the Cronies](https://staywokegazette.com/p/tiktok-sell-triggers-trump-trap/): How Oracle, Palantir and Murdoch loyalists turned a forced “sale” into the biggest voter-data grab in U.S. history—and why deleting the app is the only vote left that counts. (2025-10-05, 3 min)
- [AI Bubble Bursts as Data Center Plans Stall in Prince George’s County](https://staywokegazette.com/p/ai-bubble-bursts-as-data-center-plans/): MIT data shows almost every generative-AI dollar is still underwater, and residents are pushing back against the power-hungry server farms that were supposed to pay off. (2025-09-22, 2 min)
- [Ibrahim Traoré’s Gay Ban: Why Burkina Faso’s First Sodomy Law Betrays Its Own Revolution](https://staywokegazette.com/p/ibrahim-traores-gay-ban-why-burkina/): A consensual same-sex act now carries up to five years in prison—proof that breaking colonial tanks is meaningless if you keep the colonizer’s penal code. (2025-09-15, 3 min)
- [The Struggle of Many Faces](https://staywokegazette.com/p/the-struggle-of-many-faces/): The intersectionality in our struggles (2025-09-03, 6 min)
- [Funky Fresh](https://staywokegazette.com/p/funky-fresh/): Don't Tap The Glass: the nod to the 80's you might have missed (2025-07-26, 2 min)
- [Baltimore is Beautiful, Baltimore is Black](https://staywokegazette.com/p/baltimore-is-beautiful-baltimore/): More than statistics: A personal look at Baltimore's beautiful complexity (2025-07-22, 6 min)
- [Sitting with Time](https://staywokegazette.com/p/sitting-with-time/): What I Can't Grasp About Yesterday and Tomorrow (2025-07-10, 4 min)

## Optional

- [Signal](https://staywokegazette.com/signal/): live posts from accounts followed on Blacksky, fetched client-side.
- [Shop](https://staywokegazette.com/shop/): merch and zines.

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