By Anita Yandle When first drafting this piece, I wanted to focus on imagination as an organizing tool: Dreaming of a better world that can guide us to create it. But then, a police officer killed Daunte Wright during the… Continue Reading
Woods Ervin is a Black nonbinary trans person from the South who has been deeply immersed in movements for racial and gender justice for over a decade. Woods began organizing in 2006 in Chicago with the Broadway Youth Center, both… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak There is no future for abolition if all sectors of society do not wish to abolish injustice. How can this be brought about? By way of a sustained humanities-style old-fashioned teaching program from kindergarten to the… Continue Reading
By Mayaki Kimba I. Some years ago, I was working an admissions event at my undergraduate college. A visitor needed directions to an information session, and as I was walking him to the appropriate auditorium, he began quizzing me on… Continue Reading
By Anita Yandle “Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.”[1] It is not enough to say that there is a crisis at the… Continue Reading
By Joseph Carens My remarks come in two parts. The first part focuses on two different ways of thinking about the ethics of migration, using a discussion of refugees to illustrate the issue. The second part focuses on the legitimacy… Continue Reading
By a graduate student in the seminar The movement of people across borders – be it as migrant, asylum seekers, or refugees – has emerged as a major issue of our times. The number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide is… Continue Reading