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A collage of repression at pro-Palestine protests at Tulane in Spring 2024
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Tulane Book Festival, sponsored by friends of Netanyahu

by Drew Hawkins and Delaney Nolan September 26, 2024September 27, 2024

The answer as to why Isaacson, a well-heeled and well-connected 72-year-old professor,  would take it upon himself to use force against his own university's student for speaking out against the genocide may lie, like so many others, in the money.

Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Southern Truth About Communism

by Tea Troutman and Sherronda J. Brown April 23, 2024December 26, 2024
Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

by Kahlia Phillips March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Banned Kamp: All Boys Aren't Blue, by George M. Johnson.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The queer survival and coming-of-age book I needed as a child

by KB Brookins November 14, 2023November 14, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The perfect present for my Black and trans inner child

by Kelsey Smoot August 25, 2023November 13, 2023
"What Things Cost: An anthology for the people." Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul. Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

An anthology for people over capitalism

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
State conspiracies and censorship of the incarcerated in prison.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Conspiracyz, Scum Pigz, & the Dept. of Censorship

by G. Z. June 21, 2023September 27, 2023
The cover of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, "motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life."
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Altars for the alter-life

by mónica teresa ortiz May 16, 2023November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide, Part II: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 21, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 19, 2023November 21, 2023
Black Poetics and the Captive Maternal: Joy James asks poets to confront Black violence, using poetry as a means of survival and liberation.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023November 21, 2023
Reproductive justice and the fight for bodily autonomy in the state's war on Black women's abortion “rights,” labor, bodies, and caretaking.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reflections on Reproductive Justice and the Captive Maternal

by Breya M. Johnson April 12, 2023November 21, 2023
Black educators' undervalued labor and the need for community support and Revolutionary Love against schooling-as-colonial-indoctrination.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023November 21, 2023
From Caretaker to Rebel: The dialectical relationship between Black motherhood and captivity and the role of love as a tool of political will.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023November 21, 2023
Da'Shaun Harrison on death and revolution in the struggle for freedom. Dying is a part of struggle. Revolutionary Love is the catalyst.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023November 21, 2023
The Captive Maternal's Revolutionary Love. The transformative power of Black love in the face of oppression.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Why your new diet is antiblack

by Ko Bragg and Da'Shaun Harrison January 3, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Bookmobiles to the rescue

by Leticia Urieta September 20, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Read, Watch, Listen, Do: Black History Month

by Scalawag Editors February 4, 2022February 4, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'All my people come from the hills'

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 25, 2022April 7, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire December 28, 2021January 19, 2022
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Our South: Where fiction meets reality

by Scalawag Team December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Scalawag's 2021 Jubilee: A southern ass evening of liberatory lit 🎉

by Scalawag Team November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

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