The COVID Cliff: Underfunded Graduate Workers in Crisis
Imagine that degree of disconnect—urging employees who have to work several jobs and find external support just to make ends meet to set up a rainy day fund. Every day is rainy for us.
Category: Issues
Dear Students
Based on your class schedule, format, and requirements, this may look different for each of you, but it’s important that you maintain a routine.
Revolutionaries to Reactionaries: Marronage, Slave Revolt, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Just as the history of the Maroons in Jamaica demonstrate, the black freedom struggle can ill afford any more accommodation or compromise now any more than it did two centuries ago. Marronage is freedom, but only if we collectively understand its limits. Otherwise it is mired in class collaborationist politics which may profess a desire for black freedom, but in reality hamper it at every turn.
Children Are Our Past
The stories of enslaved children not only deserve to be told, but also contribute new interpretations of the past, furthering studies of community, family, and resistance.
“No’m, I aint tellin’ no lies. It de gospel truf”: Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection
by Sarah Whitwell How the past is remembered is as much a subject of historical inquiry as what transpired inContinue Reading
In Praise of Illegibility: Identification, Failure, and Joel Parsons’s Beholding and Being Held
The body is more than just the instrument through which we can resist; how we understand the body itself offers a site of resistance.
Peripeteia: Meditation on Hegemonic Iconoclasm
We seek not to be trivial adornments of achievements or static shelf pieces—we seek liberation over soulless applause.
Come Unity: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
Curating Political Fellowship at the Intersections between Music and Activism
Any cultural production is in and of itself a political act.
Peripeteia: A Poem
“Invite my hands into yours despite our legs being drawn away from each other Othered.”
The Activist History Review 