The Future is Another Country
We have a way to go before we reach a fair and just tenure and promotion process for faculty of color at institutions. Change is possible if administrations commit to an overhaul of the systems and demand the impossible.
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.
Marginalized student-activists and diversity workers continue to rise up and mark space in the face of both institutional barriers and the incendiary socio-political discourse of our time.
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
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.
The black lung movement shows that disability functions as a powerful force in creating cultural groups.
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.
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.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our November issue: “White Supremacy in the University.” Submissions are due October 21st.
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.
