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Call for Contributors: Responding to Far-Right Militants
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our June 2020 issue, “Responding to Far-Right Militants.”
The Transgender Community in the Time of COVID-19
The consequences of halting gender affirming surgeries could be deadly for a marginalized community that already faces high fatality rates from transphobic violence, substance abuse, and suicide tied to the mental health impacts of gender dysphoria.
Disability Justice and Mutual Aid Pedagogy or: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Teach Later On
We don’t want to teach students to work themselves to death over a dollar in someone else’s pocket.
Wildcats against “Instructional Continuity”
Rent, utilities, groceries, loan repayments, shitty housing conditions, shitty landlords: these all continue as normal.
How to Be a Wildcat
All people deserve the opportunity to teach and learn in the community, not just those whose family can subsidize their graduate education. Until then, we strike!
Dear Colleagues
The promise of a better future through education and agitation is a calling that no pandemic, however serious, could interrupt. We must and will persevere.
Infectious Nationalism: Pericles and Public Health Crises
Our world is a global system, and we need to see beyond ourselves more than the President is inclined. Stronger international collaborations would pay off. So also would a good dose of humility in face of the coronavirus.
The COVID Cliff: Underfunded Graduate Workers in Crisis
Imagine that degree of disconnect—urging employees who have to work several jobs and find external support just to make ends meet to set up a rainy day fund. Every day is rainy for us.
Dear Students
Based on your class schedule, format, and requirements, this may look different for each of you, but it’s important that you maintain a routine.
Revolutionaries to Reactionaries: Marronage, Slave Revolt, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Just as the history of the Maroons in Jamaica demonstrate, the black freedom struggle can ill afford any more accommodation or compromise now any more than it did two centuries ago. Marronage is freedom, but only if we collectively understand its limits. Otherwise it is mired in class collaborationist politics which may profess a desire for black freedom, but in reality hamper it at every turn.
