Who Does ‘The Help’ Help? A Curt Critique
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
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No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
Organized Labor and the Crisis of Democracy
Any liberal who actually cares about saving democracy should be cheering the resurgent labor movement and scrambling to support it in every way possible.
Why burlesque is not simply sexy, but also subversive (CW: some nudity)
Burlesque empowers performers and (ideally) viewers alike to reject patriarchal norms and to help create a more inclusive society.
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Justice, and the legacies of U.S. Genocide
What we have in the potential reversal of Roe represents a new form of state violence born out of a different sort of anxiety around the body politic, one that seeks to alleviate doubts around the interests of men and, at a deeper level, the infrastructure of white supremacy.
For Deliverance: A Letter on Roe
It is an act of love, of caritas, to reject the unjust undoing of Roe and to continue to help our neighbors who need access to abortions.
Labor Ecologies and the Right to Survive
In partnership with The Activist History Review, Green Theory and Praxis invites contributions for Volume 14, Issue 2 that explore how we seize the right to survive for one another and in solidarity with our global community.
Confronting the Whiteness in Black Girls’ Criminalization
Our schools criminalize Black children. We don’t just need lessons acknowledging racism. We need to create an antiracist education system.
Call For Contributors: Critique, Revolution, and Liberation in Film
For our Spring 2022 issue, The Activist History Review invites essays that consider how film—spanning genres from documentary and drama to comedy, science fiction, and fantasy—can help us critique systems of oppression and imagine egalitarian alternatives.
Practicing Antiracism: Being Accountable to Each Other in Academia and Beyond
What can instructors do right now to advance the cause of Black liberation?
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