The Future is Another Country
What we have in the potential reversal of Roe represents a new form of state violence born out of a different sort of anxiety around the body politic, one that seeks to alleviate doubts around the interests of men and, at a deeper level, the infrastructure of white supremacy.
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
It is an act of love, of caritas, to reject the unjust undoing of Roe and to continue to help our neighbors who need access to abortions.
After seven years of Black Lives Matter, and looking back at several decades of mass incarceration, justice on paper seems less of a triumph.
Their stories enrich and expand our understanding of both disability and civil rights activism—not as an afterthought or appendage, but as integral to both.
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.
I always share that I am a student who struggled. My kindergarten teacher told my parents that I would never pass the first grade.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2018 issue, “The Education of a Nation.”
Recent efforts to weaken both public education and the Voting Rights Act show that it is time to try again.
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