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A Hotbed of Anarchism and Clam Pasta

Labor organizing and espionage in Joseph Matthews’s new novel, The Blast

May 18, 2022 • by Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

There was a great variety of tremendously active Left formations in San Francisco in 1916, and I wanted to explore that variety within the context of the novel....

History

When Disasters Are Good For Museums

A conversation with historian Sam Redman about his new book, The Museum: A History of Crisis and Resilience

May 17, 2022 • by Claire Potter and Samuel J. Redman

Samuel J. Redman is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The author of two previous books about American museums and the sciences that flourished there in the 19th and early 20th century, this spring, he published his third book: ...

Europe & Central Asia

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

The struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion

May 17, 2022 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This text is thus a tribute to the struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion and to the people who have participated in it, now and in the past. Socially and culturally, the case of Lublin, with its many traditions and many contradictory policies, shows how ...

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

Activism

Breaking Through for LGBTQI Rights

Movements fighting homophobia and transphobia in Venezuela offer an example of organizing that successfully joins forces across ideological and partisan lines

May 16, 2022 • by Daniel Fermín, Richelle Briceño and Yendri Velásquez

We have to understand that the ones who are in these spaces are the ones who can create change, be it positive or negative....

Activism

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

The March in DC was one of the Largest

May 16, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 20,000 people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. for abortion rights. It was one of five hundred rallies of varying sizes around the country. Covid has discouraged travel, so people protest at home, which makes numbers harder to add up. Before the march, there was a rally on the ...

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

Feminism

Anarchafeminism

The urgent need for a feminism that does not create further hierarchies

May 16, 2022 • by Chiara Bottici

The more we searched for the “anarchafeminist tradition,” and the more we tried to identify the “anarchafeminist canon,” the less interested we were in it. While researching for this book, it became clear that the concept of an “anarchafeminist tradition,” let alone that of an “anarchafeminist canon,” is fraught with ...

Europe & Central Asia

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

A conversation with Maria Matskevich: “People think it’s a peacekeeping operation”

May 13, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Maria Matskevich

People who give interviews and speak about a catastrophe in Russia project something into the future, and do not describe what is happening right now. The situation is very different in different cities and even different institutions. In Saint Petersburg and Moscow, you have more freedom than, for example, in ...

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

Colonization

How My Grandmother Ceased to Be African

How East African Asians have been written out of African history

May 11, 2022 • by Shivani Somaiya

And in the pre-independence era, a new racial politics emerged, one that has, for far too long, encapsulated much of East Africa’s postcolonial thought, in which families like ours were increasingly depicted as foreigners to a place that had long been our home....

Sex & Gender

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

May 11, 2022 • by Jill Filipovic

Historically, I think a lot more people would have preferred not to have children if they could have prevented a pregnancy. A stat I have heard is that something like half of all pregnancies in the US are not planned, so if half the people in this country are getting ...

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

The Arts

How We Remember Leads Us to What We Remember

A review of the Noguchi Museum’s “No Monument” exhibit

May 10, 2022 • by Miko Yoshida

No Monument, contained within one and a half rooms on the first floor of the Noguchi Museum complex, challenges institutional accounts of Japanese Americans detention—often illustrated using photographs of disconsolate families surrounded by a few remaining possessions—by celebrating personal expression in a time of hardship. ...

How We Remember Leads Us to What We Remember

Past Present

The End of Roe v. Wade

Past Present Podcast, Episode 325

May 10, 2022 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Politico published a leaked draft opinion, penned by Justice Samuel Alito, in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion. Natalia referred to historian Jill Lepore’s New Yorker article and Niki drew on Jennifer Schuessler’s ...

Europe & Central Asia

The Justice Train from Bucha

The establishment of a new special criminal tribunal becomes plausible

May 10, 2022 • by Victor Tsilonis

So what will happen in the end in the field of international criminal law after the end of the war in Ukraine? The train of justice will reach The Hague’s central railway station and the truth will shine for centuries to come. The final question is whether these serious legal ...

Essays

A Hotbed of Anarchism and Clam Pasta

Labor organizing and espionage in Joseph Matthews’s new novel, The Blast

When Disasters Are Good For Museums

A conversation with historian Sam Redman about his new book, The Museum: A History of Crisis and Resilience

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

The struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

The March in DC was one of the Largest

Anarchafeminism

The urgent need for a feminism that does not create further hierarchies

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

A conversation with Maria Matskevich: “People think it’s a peacekeeping operation”

How My Grandmother Ceased to Be African

How East African Asians have been written out of African history

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

How We Remember Leads Us to What We Remember

A review of the Noguchi Museum’s “No Monument” exhibit

The End of Roe v. Wade

Past Present Podcast, Episode 325

The Justice Train from Bucha

The establishment of a new special criminal tribunal becomes plausible

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