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.
Category: Issues
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.
The Predator Class is Hungry for a Post-Roe World
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
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.
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.
Practicing Antiracism: Being Accountable to Each Other in Academia and Beyond
What can instructors do right now to advance the cause of Black liberation?
White Malice and the Racist Plunder of U.S. Empire
How American racism, capitalism, and imperialism led the U.S. to sabotage African democracies.
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