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…
By Tahereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Golnar Nikpour Note: We began work on this syllabus in 2023 and did not have…
By Lucien Baskin Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.…
By A. Naomi Paik Golnar Nikpour’s striking new book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the emergence, expansion, and…
By Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Universities, as we have argued in our collective writing on an abolitionist approach to the study…
Women preparing a kolam in Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu (the home village of Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather) in 2020. Aijaz Raha via the AP By Jessica Namakkal It has been a big year for South Asian Americans in politics. Before the summer of 2024, there were two conservatives, Nikki…
Promotional material for the 2022 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Source: Congressional Equality Caucus. By Aishah Scott Since 1999, February 7th has been observed as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) in the United States to acknowledge the continuous…
Image: Solomon Brager, "Queer & Trans Youth, You Are Loved," artwork as displayed in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (photograph by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UIUC) By Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen Trans studies today is a vibrant, rapidly expanding field…