The following forum represents an expansion on a conversation held on April 23, 2021, moderated by Catherine Cumming, and which also included Denise Ferreira da Silva and Max Haiven. A recording of that conversation can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/vengeance-of-debts. Let … Continue reading “The Vengeance of Unpayable Debts: Art, Activism, and Agitation in Puerto Rico and the United States”
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Andrea Abi-Karam and Jasbir K. Puar: Correspondence 2021
Andrea Abi-Karam and Jasbir K. PuarAndrea Abi-Karam’s most recent book is Villainy, published by Nightboat Books last year. Jasbir K. Puar is a member of the Social Text Collective and the author, most recently, of The Right to Maim (Duke UP, 2017). Here the authors … Continue reading “Andrea Abi-Karam and Jasbir K. Puar: Correspondence 2021”
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Generation Loss: A Feeling Called Heaven by Joey Yearous-Algozin
Barrett White“I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant … Continue reading “Generation Loss: A Feeling Called Heaven by Joey Yearous-Algozin”
The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History
Roma Estrada, Rae Rival and Neferti X. M. TadiarWomen across the world have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Care responsibilities, which now include teaching children, top off the long-standing problem of unpaid labor such as housework. During the lockdown, women have also been more vulnerable to domestic … Continue reading “The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History”
Defend Peasant Women: Stitching to Resist
Rae RivalIn a sea of colorful placards, the blanket-stitched banners of Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women seem comforting. It personally reminds me of what Alexandra Kollontai calls “our grandmother’s time”–what family looked like before capitalism: “The woman did everything that … Continue reading “Defend Peasant Women: Stitching to Resist”
Writing to Resist, Writing to Remember: Lumad Youths’ Narratives in the Time of Duterte
Roda TajonWriting—through poetry, essays, and stories—has become a medium for Lumad students to remember their communities: the mountains and rivers, their farms, the vast lands of their ancestral domains that they could have inherited and enriched had militarization stopped. As … Continue reading “Writing to Resist, Writing to Remember: Lumad Youths’ Narratives in the Time of Duterte”