RTRF Founder: We want to extract our ego from what we do. Can you tell us a bit more about your decision to keep your identities out of the equation? The Seventh Wave: Read The Red Flag operates as an anonymous art collective. Illustrators, web designers, writers, and all creative outliers interested in getting involved can also reach out at what they had to say about their experience and how they hope to create change through art and action. If you’d like to check out their artwork and action, head over to their Instagram. At present, they are working on a sticker campaign that uses real quotes from politicians to point out the many alarming red flags around us. Their hope is to create an informed outrage that will ultimately lead to political change. We recently sat down to chat with the dually anonymous Founder and Co-Founder of Read The Red Flag, an art collective and analog intervention that stemmed from the tangible (and typically liberal) devastation following the election of President Trump.Īs implied by their name and outlined in their manifesto, Read The Red Flag is interested in pointing out “red flags” in our current political system that might be masking (or blatantly suggesting) separatism, fascism, xenophobia, self-interest, and fear. (We’d be intrigued to hear from supporters who still feel satisfied with the outcome of the election.)Īs a nonprofit arts organization and online literary magazine, the election has certainly brought us to question our own politics and actions in the world and we hope to continue to stir important and necessary conversations.

On the other end of the political spectrum, there was celebration and perhaps in between, indifference.Īs time continues on, so do we, moving away from our initial reactions and into continued action or complacency or acceptance or for some, even joy. More people became involved with political protest, started volunteering, donated to nonprofits sales for George Orwell’s 1984 spiked. Other people actively avoided the news and fell into their couches and depression. Some people became news-obsessed - constantly reading articles on their phones at work, on the subway, while eating, instead of sleeping. There were a lot of different reactions to the November election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. A Conversation with Read The Red Flag by Editors Joyce Chen and Krista Gampper

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