June 20, 2020, Black Trans Lives Matter rally at Wade Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Samantha Coco. BY KEVIN HENDERSON J.K. Rowling, British author of the popular Harry Potter series, has gained a large following on her Twitter feed over the last…
The Queen Victoria statue being removed from Charing Cross in Lahore, July 1951. Published in the Pakistan Times.
BY ALI USMAN QASMI The tearing down of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol by protestors acting in solidarity with the trans-Atlantic Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
Artwork by Banksy. BY ADAM GILBERT When the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and dumped into a harbor during a Black Lives Matter protest in…
By Aaron S. Lecklider Like many of you, the Abusable Past wondered how the New York Times decided to publish Tom Cotton’s editorial advocating the…
The Radical History Review stands in solidarity with those across the United States and the world who are protesting against anti-Black police violence. As scholars…
By Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch This microsyllabus explores the activist and intellectual production of the International Wages for Housework (WfH) movement as…
BY LYNNELL L. THOMAS Here we go again. New Orleanians are having flashbacks of Hurricane Katrina. The announcement that the Morial Convention Center would be…
A meeting of Aymara mothers as part of ayllu reconstitution efforts in Ilata, Bolivia, 1985. The group is ritually sharing and chewing coca leaves, which are spread out in the center of the gathering. Courtesy of the Andean Oral History Workshop.
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BY BENJAMIN DANGL Grassroots people’s movements around the globe have wielded histories of resistance as tools in their struggles to build a better world. Some…
Military personnel with two protesters holding signs, Plaza Italia, Santiago, October 19, 2019. Photo by Romina A. Green Rioja. BY ROMINA A. GREEN RIOJA It has been a short time since the mass protests began in Chile, and it already feels as though the…
Protesters hold up shields before a confrontation with police in Wan Chai. Photo: Alex Yun for Lausan.
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By Chris Chien and Ellie TseOn June 9, 2019, approximately one million people marched toward the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) to protest the second…