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#FightingForWright: Our Strike to Preserve the Academic Mission of Our University
The most gratifying and telling support that we received during the strike was from students.
Call for Contributors: Political Art: The Movement(s) of Protest
TAHR seeks essays that explore the role of socially-engaged art (including visual arts, music, dance, ritual, digital arts etc.) in protest movements and other forms of grassroots direct action
Call for Contributors: Impeachment for Democracy
TAHR seeks essays that address impeachment as a way of reclaiming popular sovereignty—an opportunity to leverage the survival-politics of protest and agitation to create a more equal society.
Call for Papers: Bi-Annual Conference “Race and Equity in Higher Ed”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its bi-annual conference, “Race and Equity in Higher Ed,” to be held on June 13, 2020 at Villanova University.
Remembering The Ad Hoc Committee for Handicapped Access (AHCHA): Against Erasure of Disability History At the University Of Chicago
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
The Racialized History of Disability Activism from the “Willowbrooks of this World”[1]
Their stories enrich and expand our understanding of both disability and civil rights activism—not as an afterthought or appendage, but as integral to both.
Claiming Black Lung: Towards an Appalachian Disability Justice
The black lung movement shows that disability functions as a powerful force in creating cultural groups.
The Joker We Need Lies Beneath The Capitalist Clown We Have
We need a Joker who rejects the crumbling capitalist order, not one who reinforces it.
Decolonizing the Body: Indigenizing Our Approach to Disability Studies
If critical disability studies is to replace our traditional analyses and modes of intervention, then we must continue to approach dis/ability within the broader matrix of colonization, questioning and challenging the ways in which dominant power relations recognize, regulate, and govern our lifeways.
The Making of a Disability Heritage Exhibit
As we write catalog entries to gather these artifacts into an exhibit and then interpret the connections that will emerge in exhibition guide essays, we hope to raise questions for the audience, to allow those who are disabled to see themselves in the story.
Appalachia Is Queer, Too (CW: some nudity)
I heard someone who was a professional Christian for a living explain why they were not a part of the community that their ministry served.
