A photo of my hometown’s 1 Million March 4 Children protest. London Ontario, 2023. Photograph by WG Pearson. By Chris Aino Pihlak It was September 2023, and I was working away at some piece of academic minutiae while a few blocks away fascists…
Article image courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov By S. Ani Mukherji I. Unsettling Beauty Where Little Fiery Gizzard Creek enters the Grundy Lakes (Photograph by S. Ani Mukherji) “…a historical materialist views…
by Sana Khan My interest in soft powers began somewhat unusually: while researching the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai as an overzealous seventeen-year-old historian. Encouraged by my history…
Image courtesy of the Race and Oral History Project. by Yến Lê Espiritu, Adriana Echeverria, Youngoh Jung, Simeon Man Community Engagement and the Neoliberal University: A Departure As faculty and graduate student workers of color in Ethnic…
by Andy Urban With high temperatures in the mid-60s, March 2, 2020 was a nice day to be outside in central New Jersey. That morning,…
Michelle Joffroy, Jennifer Guglielmo, and Diana Sierra Becerra Editors' Note: This is a Spanish translation of a post that was originally published in English on…
by Joseph Plaster “When I walked in [the Peabody Library], I was like, ‘This is gonna go down in history.’ What I like about it so much…
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…
by Michelle Joffroy, Jennifer Guglielmo, and Diana Sierra Becerra For the last four years we have collaborated with the domestic workers movement (nannies, house cleaners,…
By Ariana Faye Allensworth, Adrienne Hall, and Erin McElroy In August 2015, majority Black and working-class tenants from the Midtown Park apartment complex in San…