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The Last Organizer
Over the years I’ve written a little about organizing and — well, life.
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3 Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Contemporary Political Discourse
In the aftermath of this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the keyboard warriors of the Left have been…
Ian Lee
Sep 12
In Memory of Jane McAlevey
We live in times when the argument for nihilism feels compelling. The World Health Organization estimates that this year about a quarter…
Ian Lee
Jul 8
A Year Later, a Varied Voyage
Life and feelings rant: I just wrapped the most intense three consecutive work weeks I’ve had in a long, long while. I got a lot…
Ian Lee
Jun 21
Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 4: An Obscenity
When I was 17, my parents cautioned me not to pursue a career in the arts — lots and lots of dire, strong warnings because I had been…
Ian Lee
Apr 30
Skibidi Toilet & Freud: Reluctantly Penned Thoughts
Ugh… am I really writing this essay? Dear reader, I want to let you know that as I type this, I am struggling. I’ve gone back-and-forth on…
Ian Lee
Apr 8
4 Theses on Boyfriend Dan-GPT
For those not in the know, Boyfriend Dan-GPT has been going viral on TikTok and Instagram Reels. What is Boyfriend Dan-GPT? Boyfriend…
Ian Lee
Mar 30
What Has Become of Social Justice
Controversial opinion: I want to hear way less about racial & gender diversity in elected government.
Ian Lee
Jan 2
Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3
Three months ago, I turned 30 years old. A month before my 30th birthday, I ended my ten-year career as an external union organizer, ending…
Ian Lee
Oct 29, 2023
4 Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner
In April 2022, my political media business was making a clear transition from a steady hobby into a “real” business that was starting to…
Ian Lee
Oct 8, 2023
TikTok Dialectics & the Labor Movement
As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate — and as more and more states within the U.S. are putting more and more restrictions on…
Ian Lee
Aug 17, 2023
‘The Invisible Homeless’ Director’s Speech
FWIW, this is the director’s speech I gave at Guild Theater last night after the screening of “The Invisible Homeless”:
Ian Lee
Nov 5, 2022
3 More Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner
About 5 months ago, I wrote an essay titled “3 Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner.” The title of that essay was pretty…
Ian Lee
Sep 15, 2022
A Short Thought on Healthy Confidence
There’s this mindset that you should be supremely confident in your words, all the time, and command respect everywhere you go because —…
Ian Lee
Apr 26, 2022
3 Things I’m Learning as a Small Media Business Owner
For the last few weeks, I’ve wanted to write down — mostly for myself — some of the biggest lessons I’ve been learning as a small media…
Ian Lee
Apr 25, 2022
Tragedy & Choice
Content Warning: Everything going on right now.
Ian Lee
Apr 5, 2022
The Dream I Had Last Night: Amor Fati
So, as I start typing this, it’s 5AM in the morning. I’m typically not awake this early — particularly not in the wee morning hours of a…
Ian Lee
Mar 31, 2022
The Ontology of Organizing: My Fundamental Philosophy
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Ian Lee
Dec 7, 2021
10 Year Pepper-spray Anniversary (Speech)
Hey all, my name is Ian. And ten years ago, I was a freshman here at UC Davis. I was 18 years old then — and I’m 28 now. Honestly, I look…
Ian Lee
Nov 18, 2021
Some Meandering Thoughts about Passion
If you asked people who knew me in middle school and high school what type of person I was like, you’d probably hear a bunch of things —…
Ian Lee
Sep 11, 2021
Vaccine Hesitancy & Western Ontology
There’s a lot of discourse circling around. Stuff like, “Get the vaccine. It will save your life. Here are the statistics. Here are the…
Ian Lee
Aug 21, 2021
Field Organizing, Part Redux
There are a lot of things that people call “organizing.” I’m not here to debate that — and frankly speaking, gatekeeping what an…
Ian Lee
May 28, 2021
Some Conflicted Feelings about the AAPI Hate Discourse
Some Conflicted Feelings about the AAPI Hate Discourse
So first off: the massacre in Atlanta is a travesty — a travesty inextricably intertwined with racism and misogyny. The massacre follows a…
Ian Lee
Mar 21, 2021
5 Years Ago in Reno
5 Years Ago in Reno
Simpler times. I vividly remember this.
Ian Lee
Jan 31, 2021
7 Thoughts on the 2020 Election: Delineating Ideology
(1) That we defeated President Trump is good. That 72.9 million people voted for President Trump is really not good. That President-elect…
Ian Lee
Nov 15, 2020
Proposition 22 & Its Discontents, Part 2: The Postmodern Joke
This morning I am overwhelmed by sadness — the type of emotional overwhelmed-ness that sort of makes it, like, really hard to put into…
Ian Lee
Nov 4, 2020
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