The Future is Another Country
Despite bringing devastation to his city and family, the pandemic offered Guttman Community College student Brandon Rodriguez an opportunity to slow down and reorient his priorities.
By using social networks to circulate their messages, they have persuaded a relevant amount of the Spanish people that Spain’s interest is the interest of them: a wealthy minority actively opposed to the daily concerns of regular people.
Putting a more compassionate and humane face to a grave inhumanity cannot be justice.
The now is heavy with the past. An anti-fascist future depends upon knowing this past. Medics work towards this future informed by a muddied past.
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
Re-visiting creative tactics of protest movements active in repressive environments of the Eastern Bloc might then help us understand how to (once again) use the creative genius of avant-garde artists, subvert the increasingly authoritarian contemporary rhetoric, and create a better world.
The broader citizenship did not passively wait for elite men to decide how their government should work. Instead, they mobilized and created political structures based on a rich history of broad-based political participation.
