When You’re The Only One Watching The World Burn
One former undergraduate explains how Black Lives Matter protests altered their life trajectory.
Tag: protest
Masks Up, Don’t Shoot
Kashae Garland and Black students at Villanova University sparked a social movement to redefine the campus and its culture.
Dancing Decolonization: Embodying Communal Pedagogical Practices
There is so much learning and unlearning to do and teaching dance is one of my entry points into anti-racist work.
Transition Through Turmoil: Graduating at Home During Pandemic and Protest
Micaela reflects on how the pandemic and the resurgence racial justice activism in New York City impacts working-class students and their families.
The Aesthetics of Direct Action
Artists, like protestors, disrupt existing ways of viewing the world to reimagine our lives around truth, goodness, and beauty.
Transformed by the Darkness: Protest, Pandemic and the Process of Self-Discovery
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.
“Freedom” and “Nation”: Two Convenient Weapons in a Pandemic Context
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.
How do We Seek “Justice for George”?
Putting a more compassionate and humane face to a grave inhumanity cannot be justice.
Radicalizing Care: Street Medics and Solidarity
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: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“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.
