Image: “Shut it Down” (2017) by Roger Peet, https://justseeds.org/graphic/shut-it-down-2/ Compiled by Danielle M. Purifoy Environmental Justice (EJ) scholarship in the United States emerged in tandem with social movement activism during the 1980s. Environmental Justice…
The People with AIDS Coalition’s Newsline was published by and for people with AIDS (PWAs). Among the texts submitted by PWAs, were memorial essays, poems, and drawings, like this one “for Blackie, by Ruthie.” Courtesy of People with AIDS Coalition records. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
Doing Radical History
By Jennifer Ansley In his introduction to Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, the late Douglas Crimp reflects on what he calls…
Once again, U.S. News & World Report has released its annual Best Colleges ranking. Now I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen a…
Graffiti on a stretch of border fencing between the US and Mexico calls for an end to the incarceration of immigrants. Courtesy of Christoph Buchel/Creative Commons. By María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Erika Lee, Maddalena Marinari, and Evan Taparata *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border…
A meme captures the absurdity of a Fox News gaffe that described El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as "3 Mexican Countries." Courtesy of Dispropaganda.com. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* In today's immigration discourse, history seems to be made…
A War Relocation Authority Center in Manzanar, CA where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II. Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* “The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized…
An 1899 political cartoon depicts Uncle Sam "holding up" racialized representations of individuals from parts of the world subjected to US imperial intervention at the turn of the 20th century. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* “Give me your tired, your poor…,” reads a plaque…
Protestors outside the Theodore Levin US Courthouse in Detroit, MI rally in support of Iraqi nationals charged with deportation. Courtesy of Human Rights Watch. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* Recently, there has been a dizzying number of immigration…
The Body Politic takes “Another Look” at “Men Loving Boys Loving Men,” March/April 1979. Reproduced with permission of Pink Triangle Press. Steven Maynard In his now-infamous article “Men loving boys loving men,” which appeared in the Toronto-based gay liberation paper The Body Politic in December 1977 / January 1978, journalist…
Unnamed AFP member attending Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, Washington, D.C., August 28, 2010. Photo by author. by A.J. Bauer Editors’ Note: In the past, Radical History Review has run “counter-obituaries” of historical figures in order to challenge the hagiography and whitewashing of crimes…