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White Men Running (For President)

The DNC’s nostalgic embrace of familiar, and obsolete, white male leadership

May 28, 2019 • by Aaron Landsman

“Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy.” Svetlana Boym, “Nostalgia and its Discontents.” In this 2020 Democratic primary reality TV season, Biden, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, and Sanders all seem to be performing different facets of a kind of idealized white male type. ...

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Raising the Age in New York City

The Story Thus Far

May 26, 2019 • by Julia L. Davis

Last Oct. 1, New York State’s “Raise the Age” (RTA) provisions took effect for 16-year-olds statewide. Designed to end the presumptive criminal prosecution and confinement of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, RTA brought New York into line with 48 other states. Only North Carolina persists in making 16 the default ...

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Enveloped in Suspicion

Physical mail is becoming obsolete as communication moves online

May 25, 2019 • by Judith Donath

Envelopes are one of those banal objects of everyday life we seldom think much about. They are, however, an ancient -- and at one time controversial -- privacy technology. Envelopes render their contents secret. Today, once sealed inside a simple paper envelope, all kinds of messages -- bills, birthday greetings, college ...

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Women of Color Resisting Hegemony in the Academy

An interview with Manya C. Whitaker and Eric A. Grollman

May 24, 2019 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Marianna Poyares, Manya C. Whitaker and Eric Grollman

Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability and Resistance demonstrates how to build collective co-created spaces for “speaking up, speaking against, calling out and calling in”, to make visible the experiences and voices of women of color in academia, and the struggle for infrastructures of inclusion and justice at the ...

Women of Color Resisting Hegemony in the Academy

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Trans Bodies/Trans Identities

Arlene Stein and Tey Meadow in dialogue

May 24, 2019 • by Arlene Stein and Tey Meadow

Tey Meadow is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2018), an ethnographic and interview based study of the first generation of families actively facilitating transgender identities in youth. Arlene Stein is the author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity (Vintage 2019), which ...

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Undocumented in the Ivory Tower

An excerpt from “Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics”

May 23, 2019 • by Alessandra Bazo Vienrich

Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability and Resistance documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the ...

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Of Silenced Narratives and Political Deceits

Exploding Hyper Nationalism in India and the Case of Kashmir

May 23, 2019 • by Iffat Rashid

In the ongoing drumbeat of democracy or the 'great spectacle' of the Indian elections, Indians; left, right or centre are anxiously awaiting to see whether India voted to 'save its Indian spirit', or whether it will move a step further towards being a Hindu majoritarian state. For Kashmiris, plumbing the ...

Of Silenced Narratives and Political Deceits

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(Sur)real Estate, Speculative Capital and Housing Displacement

An interview with Cassie Thornton

May 22, 2019 • by Cassie Thornton

A visitor approaching Dream Farm Commons, a small storefront gallery in downtown Oakland, California will find themselves faced with two doors. On the right is a clean, bureaucratic and hip business, labeled Desperate Holdings Real Estate Agency. In full real estate drag, the art gallery holds a desk with an ...

(Sur)real Estate, Speculative Capital and Housing Displacement

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Alabama Feminists Fight Back

How an intergenerational, multiracial force is organizing for women’s reproductive rights

May 22, 2019 • by Stephanie Gilmore

The first meme I saw when I logged on to social media on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 featured a picture of George Orwell, captioned with the words “Boy, did I call it or what?” Beneath it was a picture of Margaret Atwood retorting, “Hold my beer.” I then saw feminist and progressive friends from ...

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Debt: A Lever of Dispossession

Case Studies in Resistance

May 22, 2019 • by Iolanda Fresnillo

“Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa” Thomas Sankara “In modern times, debt has become a key means of capital accumulation. Ubiquitous, it has taken on a new function, as the most general category through which exploitation is organized” Silvia Federici The 2008 crisis burst and debt rang our doorbell. Spain, together with ...

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Sex Strike, David McCullough, and Doris Day

Past Present Episode 180

May 21, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss a proposed “sex strike,” historian David McCullough’s new book, and the life and legacy of Doris Day. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Actor and activist Alyssa Milano this week suggested that women withhold sex from men until women achieve ...