Stencils reading "Nakba" are defaced with graffiti reading "one" and "more." That is, one more Nakba. Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, 2023. (Photograph by Adrien Zakar) By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it's apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever…
Mural by Knorke leaf, woman muralist and activist involved in the anti-nuclear movement in La Paz. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/knorke_leaf/ By Francesco Martone Editor's Note: This interview…
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.
What We’re Reading
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…
Protesters hold up shields before a confrontation with police in Wan Chai. Photo: Alex Yun for Lausan.
The Abusable Past
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…
Abigail Boggs My PhD is in cultural studies, a field whose methodological promiscuity has always seemed to me less a problem to overcome than a…
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with…
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is about how internal conflicts within the profession of policing have shaped the external influence…
A century ago, as the great powers fought over land and labor and barreled toward another world war, Du Bois decried the imperial aggression of…
In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” Marisol LeBrón interviews Danielle Beaujon about her new book, Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in…
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies(CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with the…
About the Dis/Order Project Lesson Series This lesson plan is part of a series of assignments and activities developed for the Dis/Order Project, which examines…
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with the online…
In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” we invited Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton to discuss their recently released books. Taken together, Arbona-Homar’s Explosivity: Following What Remains(University of…
By Lucien Baskin Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with…