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Dancing Decolonization: Embodying Communal Pedagogical Practices
There is so much learning and unlearning to do and teaching dance is one of my entry points into anti-racist work.
Breathing Room
Perhaps there is a little piece of utopia in every struggle, or perhaps the actual fight through the struggle is utopic.
A Day of Virtual Roundtables on “Remaking the University in Our Image”
The Activist History Review presents a day of roundtables on “Remaking the University in Our Image”
Public Statement of GWU Graduate Students and Alumni on Jessica Krug
We stand with faculty of the History Department in demanding “the rescinding of her tenure and the termination of her appointment.”
Economic Inequality and Covid Shutdown in Higher Education: One Student’s Story
An undergraduate describes the economic challenges of the coronavirus shutdown at an elite university.
A Return to Home: Navigating Familial Relationships as a Queer Person During COVID
A queer college student in New York City faces challenges navigating interpersonal relationships after COVID sends her back to her small hometown.
Taylor Swift, Public Historian
Taylor Swift is doing important historical work by examining her relationship to the past and inviting fans and followers to do the same.
The Aesthetics of Direct Action
Artists, like protestors, disrupt existing ways of viewing the world to reimagine our lives around truth, goodness, and beauty.
Graduating in the Class of COVID-19
COVID-19 robbed Brandon of his senior year and his sense of community, forcing him down a difficult road of self-exploration.
Breakthrough Verdict?
After seven years of Black Lives Matter, and looking back at several decades of mass incarceration, justice on paper seems less of a triumph.
