Call for Contributors: Antiracism in America
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
Category: 2019
Strikes Work: The Story of the 2019 UIC Grad Worker Strike
For UIC grad workers struggling to get by, seeing top administrators throw huge sums of money at real estate developments while rewarding themselves with exorbitant bonuses was intolerable.
#FightingForWright: Our Strike to Preserve the Academic Mission of Our University
The most gratifying and telling support that we received during the strike was from students.
Vets for Housing Equality: The AVC and Racial Justice
What masqueraded as a policy to create improved housing was, in reality, a means of destroying Black property and community to amplify White wealth and mobility.
Call for Contributors: Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our August 2019 issue, “Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education”
Gender Transition in the Trump Era
I was the first openly transgender student at my high school and successfully secured the rights for transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity, room with students of the same gender identity for overnight field trips, and to change their name in the school’s attendance system to reflect their preferred name and gender marker.
This Must Be The Place: Glasgow’s Development as a Progressive Queer Working Class City
Scotland is considered one of the most progressive countries in Europe…Scotland, and by default Glasgow, has not always been LGBT+ forward. Queer visibility and acceptance is a relatively recent development in the social and legal landscape. Queer identities were previously socially stigmatized and there were possible legal repercussions including jail time for homosexual acts – both in public and in private.
(Re)recovering Victorian Queer History: Death Wore a Diadem (1989) and Feminist editing practices
Death Wore a Diadem’s editorial in particular is rich in its detail. It records the labours of care and attentiveness performed by a feminist publisher, to an act of lesbian historical narrative creation, itself written in a thoroughly genre-fiction mode.
Ozaawindib, the Ojibwe Trans Woman the US Declared a Chief
Ozaawindib’s story reveals important historical realities of queer, trans, and/or Two-Spirit experiences in North America, especially relating to the process of colonization and the erasure of people who did not conform to the accepted dominant standards of gender and sexuality.
(Hidden) In Plain Sight: The Global Compromise on Queer Life in the Urban Public Sphere
The advent of modern cities was also indispensible in the formation of queer identities…They simultaneously delivered unprecedented freedoms as well as unparalleled scrutiny.
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