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.
Tag: protest
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
The Moral Economy of Suffering: Citizen Photography as Political Dissent
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Tracing the Color of Queer Choreopolitics
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
Culture Jammers in the (former) Eastern Bloc: A Guidebook for Surviving the Resurgence of Authoritarianism
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.
Community Activism in Colonial Pennsylvania: How Popular Participation Became State Policy
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.
The Cocking Affair: UGA’s Commitment to White Supremacy
“Cocking accepted his job offer by telegram in September of 1937. A year and a half later, Dean Cocking held a staff meeting so controversial that it led to the state revoking UGA’s accreditation and mobs burning the governor in effigy.”
Call for Contributors: Impeachment for Democracy
TAHR seeks essays that address impeachment as a way of reclaiming popular sovereignty—an opportunity to leverage the survival-politics of protest and agitation to create a more equal society.
Remembering The Ad Hoc Committee for Handicapped Access (AHCHA): Against Erasure of Disability History At the University Of Chicago
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
Clapperclawing White America: Black Protesters, the Kerner Commission, and Striving for an Antiracist Democracy
The anti-racist protests of the Kerner Commission reveal that if structural racism can be overcome in U.S. democracy, the moral weight of white supremacy must be eradicated otherwise democratic protest will forever be read as a threat.
The Activist History Review 