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…
By Harris Solomon ** This microsyllabus originally appeared in Dr. Harris Solomon's newsletter Vital Sign: Medicine, Public Health, Ordinary Life. You can subscribe to the…
https://youtu.be/43cK1FLRStc Aaron Lecklider teaches American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and…
"Spraying in the Park" (from "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by George Seurat) One example of the "pepper-spraying cop" meme that became ubiquitous after the 2011 incident at UC-Davis that involved a campus police officer pepper-spraying a group of students sitting down in a line as part of an Occupy protest.
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By Yalile J. Suriel Despite their current presence at nearly two-thirds of colleges and universities, campus police departments failed to garner much scholarly attention from…
By Marisol LeBrón In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Jorell Meléndez-Badillo details…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr.
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr. Elliott H. Powell (Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor…
The execution of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C., 1905.
Smith was allowed to make a public statement before being hanged out of sight of the crowd. By Rebekah Aycock In Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch tells the history of the death penalty in…
Veterans of the anti-colonialist war against Spain (1863-1865) at a dinner organized by feminist educator Ercilia Pepín (third in the left row) in 1927. Source: revista Blanco y Negro. By Amaury Rodríguez Since the worldwide political upheavals of the 1960s, Caribbean and Latin American social scientists have expanded the production of people’s history or…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Durba Mitra (Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard) talks with…