As protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of encampments on US university campuses, still more have popped up across the globe—in Asia, Europe, Mexico, and...
Educational Liberation
Columbia and Beyond: The Surge in Activism for Palestine, the Instrumentalizing of “Safety,” and the Attack on Education by the Far Right
In the wake of Congressional investigations into a wave of so-called “anti-Semitism” on university campuses, college administrators are bending over backwards to appease Right Wing politicians and wealthy donors at the expense of civil liberties, and free speech and...
Organizing Against A Genocide: Sherene Seikaly & Andrew Ross on National Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Since October the 7th we have seen an eruption of support for Palestinian liberation. On university campuses we find both the tremendous growth of activism for Palestine, and repressive and punitive measures that seek to discourage and curtail these activities. One of...
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Today we talk with the prolific and wide-ranging scholar Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, just out from the University of Chicago Press. The book shows the emergence and conjuncture of...
On the Obligation to KillJoy: Sara Ahmed on the Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Today we talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. How and why is it that complaining about sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry, is considered impolite? How is civility uncivil, and the mandate to be...
Re-enchanting the World with Silvia Federici: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Today we are speak with renown scholar, activist, and writer Silvia Federici about her powerful and inspiring collection of essays, Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. These essays, written over the span of several decades, display her...
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