Category: Activism & Civic Engagement
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“Blacklisted” Recap March 6, 2018 Sojourning while Young, Gifted, Black and Immigrant: Claudia Jones and left Black feminism in the 1950s
Recap 3/6/18 Theme: “The Sojourners: Women, Activism, Communism, Immigration, Deportation” Last Tuesday on March 6, 2018—just two days before International Woman’s Day— “BlackListed” discussed the role of the Black feminist tradition as it relates to the work and life of Black woman Communist and theorist, Claudia Jones. I knew that when I recommended, in what…
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Symposium! “Archives Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice” (March 1-3, 2018)
Starting tomorrow (3/1) and running until March 3rd, 2018. the University of Iowa will hold a symposium on “Archives Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice.” On the event website, the organizers describe the event as below: “We often picture archives as rare documents and artifacts—precious and too often unseen collections that preserve our history.…
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Recap: Scholars for Social Justice Twitter Chat
Last Tuesday, February 13th, Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) held their first Twitter chat on the subject of “Racism, Resistance, and Free Speech” using the hashtag #SSJResist. The chat’s invited participants were Charlene Carruthers, Cathy Cohen, Alvaro Huerta, Barbara Ransby, C. Riley Snorton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and the conversation was moderated by Jenn Jackson. Scholars for…
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Upcoming Conference February 16-17, 2018 “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence”
Do not miss the Scholar and Feminist Conference: “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies To End State Violence” on February 16-17 at the Diana Center at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. This conference will feature Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY Graduate Center, EES), Inderpal Grewal (Yale), Mariame Kaba, Cara Page (BCRW), Nandita Sharma (U of Hawai’i, Manoa), and Dean Spade. According to…
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#DomainsResist – Building a Protest Archive
What have we learned from the Women’s March? The turnout this weekend for Women’s March 2018 was wonderful to see. Another year, and another moment to express dissatisfaction, disgust, and disagreement with this country’s leadership, particularly in regards to women’s rights. But what have we learned? Marches are great. They show solidarity. They show Who…
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SAVE NetNeutrality
Centering Around Net Neutrality: A Statement from the Critical Pedagogy Summit Seattle, WA, Dec 1, 2017 Via Ivette Bayo Urban, PhC, MEd., MSIS “Removing net neutrality benefits the individuals and entities that value maximizing financial profit. History has shown such preferential benefits will negatively impact other individuals and groups – those who are often referred to as ‘marginalized’ or ‘minority’. Maintaining net neutrality…
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Cyber bullying and Social Media
One of the biggest things that people of online communities tend to overlook is the fact that words do hurt. Although these things that are hurtful are not being said online, saying them online can amount to just as much hurt and maybe even more. I have been a witness and a victim to cyberbullying…
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Justice League Ousted From A Flight
Please check out this post from my website, HUMANITIES HEART. We all must travel to get to our destinations, we must hold the airlines accountable when injustice occurs! https://humanitiesheart.newmedialab.cuny.edu/2017/11/22/justice-league-o… Jeff
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Fundraising in a Digital Age
Have you donated to a charity lately? Was it in person? Probably not! In today’s digital age everything has gone to the internet. Fundraising is no exception to the new ways of life. In the past most fundraising was done locally, it was hard for it to get too far outside of the area it…
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HASTAC CONFERENCE 2017
This year we were honored to accept an invitation to the HASTAC Conference in Orlando, FL. The opportunity to share our social justice work with the HASTAC community was transcending. We are sending a special thanks to Cathy N. Davidson and Future Initiative. We look forward to participating next year. Watch video at Humanities Heart.