Tracing the Color of Queer Choreopolitics
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
The Future is Another Country
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
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.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
Maybe, through protest, we can create a government that acts on its own for justice. Maybe, through protest, we can make protest obsolete. Maybe.
It is sad that it took such a tragedy to get our community to realize that our city has such a problem with racism—a problem our community has struggled with for generations. Fortunately, the solution is blossoming before our eyes.
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 fact is that the struggle for equal rights will outlive all of us. Substantive and systemic changes are very slow to come, and they are made slower still by the reality of intersectional struggle. When you are struggling not only for your own freedom, but freedom for all oppressed peoples, you increase the chances of encountering opposition from erstwhile allies.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “revolutions” to be featured in the July issue.