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The magazine

Radical media, built in community.

Media the algorithm can’t bury. Stories that belong to the people living them.

Shadowbanned is building a leftist media ecosystem that challenges power and puts marginalized and working-class voices first, at the intersection of politics, design, technology, and culture.

Through our media platform, we connect organizers, artists, and everyday people. We make radical media that resists repression, builds solidarity, and takes storytelling back from corporate control for the next generation.

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An audience that reads, opens, and shows up.

15.2KInstagram followers
150.9KInstagram reach
35.56%Instagram engagement rate
48%Newsletter open rate across 2.2K subscribers

Contributors and readers in the United States, Sweden, the UK, Canada, Iran, Palestine, and across Africa.

What we’re up to

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Three ways culture becomes impact

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Shadowbanned Press

Home of Shadowbanned Magazine, our flagship quarterly publication.

Each issue collects politics, culture, art, and poetry from marginalized and working-class voices, made to be held, passed around, and kept.

Shadowbanned Press also produces independent books and zines that preserve radical work and cultural memory, supporting movement history, political education, and a long-term cultural archive.

  • Shadowbanned Magazine, our quarterly publication
  • The Modern Little Red Book
  • Complete Transparency: A Zine of the Epstein Files
  • Simulacra Americana with Ryan Evans
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Shadowbanned Events

Spaces to engage with political ideas that are still genuinely fun. We blend political education with culture and conversation so people move from curiosity to participation.

  • Prohibited Words Zine Workshop
  • Ink as Resistance: Print as a Tool
  • Turn Up the Heat: Print for NYC ICE Watch
  • Magazine release parties + pop-up newsstand
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Shadowbanned Merch

Custom apparel and goods for organizations, institutions, and collectives aligned with our values. Merch that works as fundraising infrastructure and cultural expression.

  • Design and produce merch for your organization

Previous partners

Jewish Voice for PeaceNew Museum & NEW INCBrooklyn Public LibraryPrinted MatterDrink PalestinaBlasian Book FairSecret Riso ClubEvo BeverageFolds ChipsReal del Valle TequilaRodeo.BKWork in Progress

Who we’re looking for

Partners

Organizations, institutions, venues, and brands that want to reach a curious, engaged audience looking for connection.

  • Events + speaking engagements
  • Shadowbanned Press publishing
  • Custom merch design and production

Investors

Supporters who want to help build independent, people-owned media infrastructure for the next generation of organizers and artists.

  • Ensure diverse access to information
  • Build a lasting cultural archive
  • Create opportunities for youth civic education
  • Support cultural workers
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Subscribers

Readers who want political education, culture, and community in their inbox and in print, plus first word on every event.

  • The newsletter
  • The quarterly magazine
  • Event invites + pre-orders

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