“In any case, I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (1873) It is with those words of Goethe that the young Friedrich Nietzsche, barely twenty-nine years old, opens… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Collective abolition feminist organizing, teaching, and learning bring us together. As scholars, educators, and organizers, we are involved in projects that revolve around prison and police abolition, as we attempt to grow anti-carceral approaches within feminist… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Philosophy and political activism have always been embedded in my life.” — Toni Negri, Revolution 13/13 Toni Negri has always personified, to me, the brilliance and inspiration of the activist philosopher. Always engaged, always… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Malcolm X’s example taught us the profound dignity and courage that can come from being willing to change one’s mind and reinvent oneself even in public—and in our era of social media, that is a… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Revisiting these Black radical voices of the twentieth century [Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.], we retrain ourselves to glean, in the calamitous and contentious discord of the present, both the profound scale of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I see this as a feminist stance. The capacity to dwell within contradictions and render them productive is an important element of feminist methodologies. I’m recognizing now that I had encountered dilemmas that required that… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, and Mao Zedong are revolutionaries who have conveyed a political morality that rejects compromise and in this way they have allowed us two things: we have been able to… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Variously called a riot, a rebellion, an uprising, the events at the Stonewall Inn down on Christopher Street in New York City in June 1969 were momentous. As historians note—and as Jack Halberstam underscores in their… Continue Reading