The Vengeance of Unpayable Debts: Art, Activism, and Agitation in Puerto Rico and the United States

Hannah Appel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner

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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The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History

Roma Estrada, Rae Rival and Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Women 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”

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Writing to Resist, Writing to Remember: Lumad Youths’ Narratives in the Time of Duterte

Roda Tajon

  Writing—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”

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