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The Racialized History of Disability Activism from the …
Webby Jorge Matos Valldejuli. In 2010, a celebration honoring two major figures of the Civil Rights Movement took place at the iconic Apollo Theater in New York City. [2] Both Percy E. Sutton, the former Manhattan Borough President and once attorney for Malcolm X, and Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, the former editor and publisher of the city’s leading African …
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Decolonizing the Body: Indigenizing Our Approach to Disability …
WebComment 1. by Rachel Presley. “Disability is not fundamentally a question of medicine or health, nor is it just an issue of sensitivity and compassion; rather, it is a question of politics and power (lessness), power over, and power to.”[1] (Dis)ability is inherently colonial. While disability studies as an academic and activist discipline
Disability Justice and Mutual Aid Pedagogy or: How I Learned to …
WebMutual aid is not limited to disasters; any organizing effort which relies on horizontal and relational organizing to meet needs within a marginalized community could constitute a mutual aid project. Disability justice pedagogy inherently aligns …
Treating Mental Illness in Victorian Britain
WebCare in the Community was designed to replace the old asylums, but amounted to nothing more than “an attractive slogan.”. Writing in the 1970s, author PD James described care in the community as “the absence of care in a community still largely resentful or frightened of mental illness.”. Since James wrote this, and as Patrick …
Dining with Dignity: How the Crescent City Cafe Builds Community …
Webby Adelle Bergman. The Crescent City Cafe believes everyone deserves a dignified meal, and we strive to provide one for each and every person that attends our bi-monthly breakfasts. What does a dignified meal look like? Well, to us it looks very similar to a typical casual dining restaurant experience—our guests are greeted at the door by a …
The Everglades Labor Camp and the Farmworkers’ Movement in …
WebIn 1973, a typhoid epidemic struck the rural city of Homestead in South Florida, sickening approximately 210 people. The victims, who drank from a sewage-infested well, were impoverished farmworkers and their families living in a local labor camp. After years spent advocating for improved farm labor camps and community resources, …
Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian
WebAlso this week: Evan Turiano’s analysis of the historiography of self-emancipation reveals the importance of historians’ approach to enslaved people, while Nathan Wuertenberg’s piece on the relationship of the American Revolution to race-based empire examines similar forces.. by Lewis Eliot. On the twenty-first of August 1791, …
The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian
WebThis essay is part two of a two-part series. Click here for the introduction, and here for part one. by Matthew Sparks “Because they want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, …
The Transgender Community in the Time of COVID-19
Webby Daniel Molina. The global pandemic of COVID-19 is a historic catastrophe that we experience in real time together as it unfolds. Yet, like in other major crises, transgender people are being excluded from the conversation and therefore must write our own stories back into the history. The initial outbreak of COVID-19 was reported to the
From Moral to Political Economy: The Origins of Modern …
WebToday, philanthropy and inequality exist in a feedback loop of sorts in the United States. Philanthropic organizations such as the United Way and the Red Cross transform donations, or labor, into research or humanitarian activities intended to benefit humankind in general, but not to alleviate individual hardships.
Racism Is Making Us Sick – The Activist History Review
Webby Laura Post Horne. Help and hope are available. Since 2003, Active Minds has empowered students facing mental health struggles to share their stories to let others know they’re not alone and to spread that message: help and hope are available.During my time as a member of the Active Minds team, I’ve come to recognize that I and many of …
Business As Usual: The Objectification of Black Women in …
Webby Dr. C. Chic Smith. As the threads of America’s sexual predation culture continue to unravel, it is amazing to witness the cast of characters who are utterly shocked and appalled that this pervasive behavior exists in our civilized society.
Dancing Around a Pandemic: An Industry and Community Altered …
Webby Hannah Hall and Matthew Westberry. In light of recent events we, two rising senior dance majors at The University of Alabama, were inspired to write about how COVID-19 has affected the dance community. The financial crisis has had a tremendous impact on the dance community, because the business is largely dependent on live …
Review: The Early Modern World, Chapters 5 to 7 of Jackson …
Webby Jennifer Tellman. Jackson Spielvogel’s World History: Modern Times adheres to a traditional view in history: the West and the rest. The author drew lines in the sand between Western Europe and the rest of the world that utterly deny the fluidity, assimilation and sheer dumb luck that proliferate throughout human history, and replaces …
Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike
WebBy Jacob Remes. One of the most widely consumed depictions of the American labor movement in the 1980s was Barbara Kopple’s documentary American Dream about a meatpackers’ strike at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-86. Facing deindustrialization, an employer set on extracting devastating concessions, a …
Academic Racism: The Repression of Marginalized Voices in …
WebThe first replied that regardless of a strong commitment to diversity, they were unable to think of any scholar of color at the moment. The second, grasping for straws, offered the name Paul Ricœur, and then proceeded to convince me why this white scholar should be considered as representing communities of color.
Strikes Work: The Story of the 2019 UIC Grad Worker Strike
WebDuring spring semester, 2019, grad workers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) rejected this narrative and went on strike for nearly three weeks to assert our dignity and affirm the value of our labor. We organized the work stoppage through our union, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), an affiliate of the American Federation
Infectious Nationalism: Pericles and Public Health Crises
WebThis article was originally published with Avon Hills Salon on March 16, 2020 and is republished with permission here.. by Jason Schlude. A powerful state sits on the verge of a public health crisis. An infectious disease threatens to ravage its population.
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