Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Tag: Activism
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.”
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 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.
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
#ChangetheDamnName: MTSU Student Activism Against Forrest Hall, White Supremacy, and a Reparative Approach to Heritage Preservation
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.
Call for Contributors: Political Art: The Movement(s) of Protest
TAHR seeks essays that explore the role of socially-engaged art (including visual arts, music, dance, ritual, digital arts etc.) in protest movements and other forms of grassroots direct action
