The young Joan Stanley on a park bench with William Fletcher in the scene where she reveals to him the damning photograph of his same-sex kiss. IFC Films As every good homosexual knows, there is no such thing as bad movie starring Dame Judi Dench. They might not all be Notes on a…
Photo Credit: Andrew Rittenburg, Wheeler Occupation, November 20, 2009. Compiled by Eli Meyerhoff and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein This microsyllabus eschews some of the more canonical texts in the burgeoning field of critical university studies -…
What happens to peer review under conditions of academic precarity? The question arises from my own mixed experiences with peer review practices as a precarious…
In the manifesto of the Abolition Collective—drafted collectivity and collaboratively without individual attribution as an openly revisable statement—we write: Academic journals have functioned to maintain…
Recent data on the representation of women in anglophone philosophy journals published in a 2018 article reveal that the percentage of women authors has remained…
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue explores the ways, means, and co-constitution of military infrastructures, labor, strategies of violence,…
“Gatekeepers,” I sputtered again. Countless times I have received reviews of my work, seen that of other scholars, of graduate students, or heard through the…
The Abusable Past debuted in the fall 1984 issue of the Radical History Review with a hand drawn bottle of aspirin spilling out onto the…
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