Archives Of Dissent

How do we theorize, historicize and imagine dissent amidst the detritus of an extractive comprador-settler global order? How do we speak of geo/epistemes of dissent that rupture our refusals, and yet have that rupture be free and in the interest of freedom? An aleatory montage of the times and spaces of dissent, the cumulative force […]

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The story—because it is has not yet fully cohered into a “History”—exists in fragments. It lives, thus far, in people; in Facebook posts scrawled in the twilight hours of the morning; in the built environment; and in secret libraries which migrated from Church to neighborhood stall. Nevertheless, select scattered clues from the last half-century are

On February 12, 1983, 43 years ago, under the military dictatorship of Zia ul Haq, women in the city of Lahore, Pakistan, held a nonviolent march and sit-in to protest a prejudicial law of evidence that made women’s testimony in courts worth only half that of men, proposed and eventually passed in a series of

Palestinians and American Indians have been subjected to repeated ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns, the disruption of their ability to reproduce their societies, and too many genocidal “self-defenses” and annihilating “protective measures” to account for in this short essay. They share the destruction of their archives and heritage sites, and the project to sequester and

Floating on my back in the middle of the ocean, I can barely make out the coastline—it looks a lot like scenic 1970s Muqdisho but I can’t be too sure. Here and now drifting so far away from the certainty of land doesn’t worry me in the least, because I am savoring feeling on my

Queer-trans-feminist dissents, struggles, and coalitions are urgent and essential to any anti-fascist organizing and any revolutionary claims toward futures of freedom. For longer than a decade now, significant sociopolitical changes have taken place among queer and trans communities in Turkey and around the world. In response, the growing alliances between queer, trans, and feminist movements