Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, is a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights whose teaching and research focus on critical race theory, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas is… Continue Reading
Primary Readings: Hans-Jürgen Krahl, “The Political Contradictions in Adorno’s Critical Theory,” originally published in Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Konstitution und Klassenkampf (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Neue Kritik, 1971), pp. 285-288. English translation by Pat Murray and Ruth Heydebrand: Telos Fall 1974 no.… Continue Reading
Readings Jason Baumann, The Stonewall Reader (New York: Penguin, 2019). Che Gossett, “Che Gossett on AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya’s legacy and the intersections between all movements for liberation,”June 13, 2010. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Berkeley: University of… Continue Reading
Primary Readings George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994). George Jackson, Blood In My Eye (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1990). Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (New York: Grove Press, 2019).… Continue Reading
Readings Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017). Stuart Hall, “Culture, Resistance, and Struggle,” in Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, ed. Jennifer Daryl Slack and Lawrence Grossberg (Durham: Duke University Press,… Continue Reading
Che Gossett is a Black non binary femme writer and critical theorist specializing in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. They are currently the Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at the Initiative for a Just Society. They received… Continue Reading
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor To introduce our discussion of the Combahee River Collective Statement at the People’s Forum for Revolution 4/13, I will develop two points. The first concerns why I decided to publish How We Get Free: Black Feminism and… Continue Reading