Playing Red Diaper Babies

Join us for an intergenerational program with visual artist and educator Maggie Wong that includes readings, archive browsing, and art making activities centered around the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L), a national revolutionary Communist organization active in the 1980s. The program aims to create a welcoming space for revolutionaries of all ages.

The program marks the launch of Unity Newspaper (pictured above), an interdisciplinary project by Maggie that brings together the archives of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) and oral histories from former League members and their children, including Maggie herself. The publication builds upon the League's original newspaper and childcare system as a starting point to explore themes of childhood, collective caregiving, and political inheritance. 

Maggie and allied performers will read from Unity Newspaper, playing different authors that appear in the publication. Attendees will be invited to browse and share findings from Interference Archive’s collection of the League’s pamphlets and newspapers, engage in artmaking activities, snack, tell stories, play, and rehearse for the world we want to build.

Program Schedule

3:00-4:00pm: Open browsing the archive and facilitated artmaking and newspaper activity

4:00-4:30pm: Performance of Unity Newspaper

4:30-5:00pm: Open group discussion

There will be a station for artmaking and snacks throughout the event.

The League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) is featured in "," an exhibition at Interference Archive (January-May, 2017), and its .

About Maggie Wong

Maggie Wong is an interdisciplinary artist who uses research and studio based practice to explore political inheritance, memory, and play. Her work builds meaning like a stack of toy blocks, assembling and falling into a relational history rather than fixed narratives in media that include printmaking, sculpture, installation, and pedagogy. This approach acknowledges the impossibility of articulating an entire cultural or political inheritance, embracing Angela Davis’s idea that “legacies of past struggles are not static.”

She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Her work has been shown at deiner (MA), The Arts Center at Governors Island, The Chinese-American Museum of Chicago, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Comfort Station, Annas Projects, take care (LA), Temple Contemporary, YBCA, and 99cent Plus, and has been written about in Sampan, Boston Art Review, the Chicago Reader, Sixty Inches from Center, and ArtForum. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press, Viral Ecologies, The Seen, and the Journal of Art Practice. Her forthcoming essay on LRS childcare will be released in Fortunately Magazine in 2026. 

Host or Publisher Interference Archive