By Myrl Beam I’m not the only one breathing a massive sigh of relief, right? Thank god Pride month is over. Do we have to…
Accusing Cow Compiled by Gabriel N. Rosenberg Animal Studies queries the relationship between nonhuman animals (or “animals”) and human social orders. It is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing…
Original artwork by Colectivo La Puerta By Aurora Santiago-Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo On July 17, 2019, between 400,000 and 500,000 people took to the streets in Puerto Rico to demand the…
Performance held outside of the governor's mansion on July 15, 2019 aimed at holding Ricardo Rosselló accountable for the deaths of Puerto Ricans. Photo by Yarimar Bonilla. By Beatriz Llenín Figueroa Whatever happens, whatever happened / Oh hey / We are deathless / We are deathless. (Ibeyi, “We Are Deathless”) #MeCagoEnLaIsla is…
Wheatpaste poster created by Oaxacan street artist Yescka. https://guerilla-art.mx/tag/ayotzinapa/ Compiled by Fernando Herrera Calderón In September 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, a school designed to train rural teachers in Mexico,…
“Stop Police Killings,” CAPA Papers, Southern California Library From 2015 to 2018, historians of policing Max Felker-Kantor and Simon Balto lived within a mile of each other in Indianapolis. At the time, both…
By Julio Capó, Jr. Celebrations last month -- June 2019 -- commemorated the strength, resilience, and power of LGBTQ people, as thousands honored the Stonewall…
Jack Johnson fighting Jim Jeffries on July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nevada By Hannah Borenstein In May 2019, sports media fawned over a high school track and field star, Matthew Boling, after footage of the young star’s…
Pudding Pride into perspective By Aaron Lecklider As every smart person in America knows, nobody pushes political conversations forward more effectively than people on the margins who support the…