Review: Jane the Virgin and #MeTooPhD
It’s not every day that a CW drama features a storyline about power dynamics and romantic relationships in academia, but Jane the Virgin did just that in its March 2, 2018 episode “Chapter 75.”
Tag: April 2018
Gun Violence, Resistance, and the Left
Any discussion of gun control must go hand in hand with an argument for de-militarization and an end to the carceral state, or it will only further disempower those most vulnerable to state violence.
Being Appalachian Isn’t Just About Owning Guns
A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series about gun violence and white supremacy. I expected some backlash, and I got it.
Anderson Runs for Mayor to Stop the Painful Violence
Charles’ art and activism have been a fixture in the city for the last decade, so when I learned Charles would be running for mayor, I knew I wanted to interview him.
The Gun Lobby’s Grip: Campus Carry in Kansas
Scholar-activist Megan Jones reveals the ties between NRA lobbyists and the Kansas legislature that resulted in open-carry campuses across the state.
Property, Capitalism, and Guns
The shift away from guns as consumer products for hunting and sport towards guns as consumer products for self-protection ignores the argument initially used to validate private gun ownership: defense of private property, as opposed to self-defense of the people occupying personally-owned land.
Confronting History at the March for Our Lives
The messy realities of the past rarely make for the pithiest of signs. And the reality of private gun ownership in the United States is not that it enjoys the support of an eighteenth-century amendment, but that it enjoys the support of twenty-first-century legislative and judicial interpretations of that amendment.
Whose Children?: Mom Activism and Race in the Gun Control Movement
Moms Demand Action models itself after Mothers Against Drunk Driving. But to claim an inheritance from MADD is to also lay claim to their particular white suburban praxis, where the theoretically race-neutral title of “mother” works to mobilize women around the deaths of white children.
The Activist History Review 