Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Tag: Gender
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
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.
A Queer Civil War Soldier’s Story
As a man who found intimacy with another soldier, in a relationship that outlasted the war, Alphons Richter’s story is queer to modern readers. Untangling the strangeness of the emotional, Richter provides insight into the queer history of the United States.
The Regular and Necessary Practice of Black Trans Necromancy
Blu Buchanan: In this essay I explore the problem of absence and abjection in Black trans experience, both in the historical archive of slavery and in the contemporary moment, asking how and why Black trans necromancy is so important to our everyday lives.
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.”
Between a Cuck and a Hard Place: Masculinity and Online Uses of the Word ‘Cuck’
I analyzed how users of The_Donald subreddit use the word “cuck” so you never have to visit their website.
Alpha-Males, Underdogs and New Men: Masculinity in Animated Films
Leading animation studios too often fail to rewrite some of the hypermasculine, destructive scripts that dominate popular culture.
Call for Contributors: Making Brett Kavanaugh – Masculinity in America
The Activist History Review seeks articles on the historical and present-day construction of masculinity in the United States and its significance for politics, society, economics, and culture.
Gender and the Left from SDS to DSA
While Democrats are banking on the support of women and trying to make sure that women vote, the left has its own issues with gender that it struggles to deal with. Underneath the surface level performative support for #metoo, however, gender based harassment and discrimination is not only a right wing issue.
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.
