We are living in a time when the very platforms we rely on to tell our stories are also the ones silencing us and spreading misinformation or worse, justifying our extermination.

Social media was supposed to democratize information. It promised us visibility, community, and voice. But for those of us who have always been marginalized—by borders, by race, by gender, by systems designed to erase us—these platforms have become another site of extraction. It’s become a place where our grief is content. Where our resistance is suppressed. Where our culture is scrapped to train artificial intelligence systems that will one day reproduce our knowledge, without us.

That’s why we created Everything Is Political.

Our Stories Are Not Neutral

At Slow Factory, we’ve always used storytelling as a tool for justice. Our community—now reaching more than 40 million people strong—has gathered around climate justice, fashion waste colonialism, settler colonialism, and the right to tell our stories on our own terms. But what we’ve learned, time and again, is that social media platforms are not objective nor are they “neutral”.

They reward simplicity over complexity often leading to misinformation and dehumanization of our people by flattening our identities to simple “terrorists” monichers. And what gets most clicks is sensationalism over truth. For people from historically oppressed communities—those who live at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, disability, and class—the result is more than just invisibility. It’s violence.

Instagram shadowbans stories about Gaza, Congo, Sudan, Kashmir and Haiti—to name a few. TikTok buries posts about Palestine and Lebanon. Threads, Facebook, and X amplify misinformation while throttling cultural truth-telling. And all the while, these same platforms use our language, our faces, and our data to train AI to mimic us. What does that say about the future of cultural production?

Everything Is Political: A Radical Library

Everything Is Political is our response. It is an independent media platform, zine, and digital archive built for us—by us. It doesn’t depend on algorithms. It doesn’t seek corporate approval. It is a refusal to be erased, a living space for our truths to exist, grow, and be witnessed.

We publish essays, archival research, news, and storytelling that dig deep into the environmental and political realities we face—from ecocide in Lebanon and settler colonialism in Palestine, to how fashion waste is dumped in the Global South. These are not just articles. They are cultural documentation. They are community-based data. They are stories algorithms cannot hide.

Building Our Own Infrastructure

During the 2020 uprisings, we shared tools for dismantling white supremacy that reached tens of millions—before they were censored. Our Open Edu program has welcomed over 1.5 million people into the work of justice. We know what happens when we make knowledge accessible: solidarity grows.

But we also know that relying on extractive infrastructure is not sustainable. If we want a future where our stories are preserved, where our knowledge is protected, where our communities thrive—we have to build our own systems. Everything Is Political is that system.

This is Cultural Resilience

This platform is a home for the dispossessed, for the storytellers, for the knowledge-keepers. For everyone who has ever been told their voice was too loud, too much, too complicated.

It’s also an invitation. To remember that culture is not a product—it is resistance. It is what we pass on. It is how we survive.

So yes—everything is political. Even the platforms we use to speak it.

Your actions will lead us to systemic change, join us, let’s make a bigger wave.