Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South
Emphasis on organizing along lines of difference as a collective has caused organizations in the South and Appalachia to experience violent backlash.
Tag: Activism
Pauli Murray and the Pronominal Problem: a De-essentialist Trans Historiography
Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.
Gone with the Wind: Tracing Agricultural Migrant Labor
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
Call for Contributors: “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
What Does it Mean to Be an Activist Historian?: A Roundtable with the Editors
“I see my duty as an activist-historian to also uplift the voices of other activist-historians who may not be traditional historians, but are doing essential historical work, by highlighting their historical-activism on any platform available and joining them in direct action whenever possible.”
Legal Action Without Protest?
Maybe, through protest, we can create a government that acts on its own for justice. Maybe, through protest, we can make protest obsolete. Maybe.
Hiya Norm, Where ‘Ya Headed?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but that’s not why we study it.
“Within the Forms of Law”: Politics and Activism, 1850s and Today
Activists have applied political pressure most effectively on the state and local levels. The fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s provides a historical roadmap for embracing formal politics as a means toward activist ends in the United States.
Freedom Summer was the Ultimate Protest Summer. It’s Time for Another One!
Recent efforts to weaken both public education and the Voting Rights Act show that it is time to try again.
Pragmatism v. Purity?: The Left and Elections
While Democrats are, at best, a corporate-dominated center-left party with a history of attacking its left flank, they represent the only viable alternative to the far right Republican agenda. Supporting Democrats, given the alternative, is important. After all, Democrats are the only other political party with real power in a system designed to accommodate the existence of only two parties.
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