The Future is Another Country
What might a reparative approach to heritage preservation look like? First, a reparative approach to heritage preservation involves taking seriously the collective wounds and violence on which institutions like the university are structured.
We hope, by publishing a pledge and a public list of those who have taken it, to pressure academic institutions and societies to better reflect both the diverse nature of existing scholarship and to foster a more inclusive profession that embraces the diversity of our communities worldwide.
This article explores the history of police presence in the university setting to understand the gap between administrators’ professed desire to keep campuses safe through policing and the reality that police presence makes campus climates less safe for students of color.
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.
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.
We need a Joker who rejects the crumbling capitalist order, not one who reinforces it.
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 Activist History Review