Why burlesque is not simply sexy, but also subversive (CW: some nudity)
Burlesque empowers performers and (ideally) viewers alike to reject patriarchal norms and to help create a more inclusive society.
Tag: Activism
Book Review: Radical Documentary and Global Crisis
Radical Documentary and Global Crisis feels both like a much-needed acknowledgment of the significant work so many activist filmmakers have put forth in the modern age and at the same time, a call for more activist, “radical” filmmaking in the years to come.
Activist Adjuncts: Reimagining Power and Privilege Through Antiracist Pedagogy
A coalition of adjuncts shares lessons from revolutionary campus work.
The Aesthetics of Direct Action
Artists, like protestors, disrupt existing ways of viewing the world to reimagine our lives around truth, goodness, and beauty.
Dear Colleagues
The promise of a better future through education and agitation is a calling that no pandemic, however serious, could interrupt. We must and will persevere.
Curating Political Fellowship at the Intersections between Music and Activism
Any cultural production is in and of itself a political act.
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.”
The Activist History Review 