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…
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…