Who Does ‘The Help’ Help? A Curt Critique
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
Tag: Spring 2022
No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
Organized Labor and the Crisis of Democracy
Any liberal who actually cares about saving democracy should be cheering the resurgent labor movement and scrambling to support it in every way possible.
Why burlesque is not simply sexy, but also subversive (CW: some nudity)
Burlesque empowers performers and (ideally) viewers alike to reject patriarchal norms and to help create a more inclusive society.
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Justice, and the legacies of U.S. Genocide
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.
The Predator Class is Hungry for a Post-Roe World
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.
For Deliverance: A Letter on Roe
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.
Call For Contributors: Critique, Revolution, and Liberation in Film
For our Spring 2022 issue, The Activist History Review invites essays that consider how film—spanning genres from documentary and drama to comedy, science fiction, and fantasy—can help us critique systems of oppression and imagine egalitarian alternatives.
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