Kaschisms

what is the line between activist and artist? is it thick or thin?

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What’s the problem with Black Masculinities?

by Dr Ornette D Clennon Like so many of us, I was spellbound by the recent conversation between bell hooks and Melissa Harris Perry that showed beyond any doubt the lively power of an intersectiona...

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Jackie Wang

Jackie Wang is a writer, poet, musician, and academic whose writing has been published by Lies Journal, Semiotext(e), HTML Giant, BOMBlog, along with numerous zines. Her essay “Against Innocence” provides insightful analysis on penal and race theory. Her blog, Ballerinas Dance with ...

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Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights.

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Radical Archives - Creative Time Reports

Artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani of the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared present audio recordings from the "Radical Archives" conference, which they organized at New York University in April as part of the Index's 2013–14 residency at NYU’s Asian / Pacific / American Institute.

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Progressive Struggles against Insidious Capitalist Individualism: Interview with Angela Davis

In this interview, Angela Davis, and activist, teacher, author, and icon of the Black Power movement, talks about the linkages among global struggles. Touching upon black feminism, the importance of the collective, Palestine, the prison-industrial ...

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"For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy."

Thomas King, "The Inconvenient Indian"

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Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, “having it all” and true liberation

We're told we can "have it all" -- as long as that means marriage, babies, a finance job, shoes and exhaustion

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Feminist art manifestoes, listed in n.paradoxa : international feminist art journal(ISSN: 1461_0434), KT press

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How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it

Nancy Fraser: A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase

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Noam Chomsky: Why Americans Know So Much About Sports But So Little About World Affairs

The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway to influence the real world.

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What is Neoliberalism?

What is Neoliberalism? is a video by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring interviews with Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui. In the video, contributors describe the various meanings that have been attributed to the term “neoliberalism,” the neoliberal economic policies […]

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From Pamphlets to Power - Collecting the History of the Revolutionary Left: An Interview with Radical Archivist Brad Duncan. Part One

 Introduction There is a tendency among the left these days to make ones bona fides through a scathing critique...of the left. While not for a movement denying the need for any number of critiques ...

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Mr. Postman Full Rehearsal

Rosa Parks High School students rehearsing the song Mr. Postman as seen on vine uploaded by oneilthomas(me) Follow the amazingly talented girls on Instagram:...

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nice? or political pushovers? or a powerful communalism? or both?

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Oxford to Yemen: from literary scholar to tribal adviser

Elisabeth Kendall’s work on jihadist poetry led to tribespeople seeking her expertise

This made me feel so uncomfortable