Move, Dance, Talk, Resist
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
Category: Issues
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Switch: Consent and Gender Non-Conformity in Social Partner Dancing
Fusion-as-Activism is political project that centers gender non-conformity and consent by transmuting these political beliefs into aesthetic and actively enforced social values.
The Moral Economy of Suffering: Citizen Photography as Political Dissent
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Tracing the Color of Queer Choreopolitics
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
Addressing Opportunity: The Landscape of Inequality
This interactive art exhibit explores how the movement of affluent people to a few wealthy zip codes nationally affects income inequality.
Culture Jammers in the (former) Eastern Bloc: A Guidebook for Surviving the Resurgence of Authoritarianism
Re-visiting creative tactics of protest movements active in repressive environments of the Eastern Bloc might then help us understand how to (once again) use the creative genius of avant-garde artists, subvert the increasingly authoritarian contemporary rhetoric, and create a better world.
The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of Impeachment
It is misleading to call impeachment “justice” when it reflects the priorities of empire.
The Rise of Skywalker’s Activist Historian
Beaumont Kin is a good example of how those within the profession should embrace the activist historian mantle in our own time and in our own, very real world.
Community Activism in Colonial Pennsylvania: How Popular Participation Became State Policy
The broader citizenship did not passively wait for elite men to decide how their government should work. Instead, they mobilized and created political structures based on a rich history of broad-based political participation.
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