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Series Co-editors’ Prologue to Sowmya Ramanathan’s Agitation, “Nature with Culture: Learning from Afro-Colombian feminists to imagine gender beyond the human”

November 14, 2024

By Ponni Arasu, in conversation with Richa Nagar *This is part of the ongoing series Holding Movements, Agitating Epistemes convened and co-edited by Ponni Arasu and Richa Nagar.* Read Sowmya Ramanathan’s piece here. Sowmya Ramanathan’s intervention is a breath of fresh air. She drives home the critical point that just as the conservative coupling of…

Nature with Culture: Learning from Afro-Colombian feminists to imagine gender beyond the human

November 13, 2024

By Sowmya Ramanathan *This is part of the multi-part series Holding Movements, Agitating Epistemes: Remembering, Retelling, and Dreaming for Justice convened and co-edited by Richa Nagar and Ponni Arasu. Read the Series Co-editors’ Prologue to this piece here.* Does a mangrove have a gender? Do the oceans? The rivers? The skies? If you are…

Yesterday Srebrenica, Today Gaza

November 6, 2024

By Emina Bužinkić & Piro Rexepi This article was first published on dversia (October 9th, 2024), a Bulgarian-based critical outlet. It has been republished here with the authors’ permission. Instigated by Germany and Rwanda, the United Nations recently brought to the fore the question of the Bosnian genocide denial and proposed recognizing the mass massacre of…

SOLIDARITY FROM ABOLITION ACTIVISTS & SCHOLARS TO SERBIA’S STUDENT BLOCKADES

March 28, 2025

As activists, artists and scholars, we send our solidarity with Serbian students, educators and academics, workers, artists and activists who have been instrumental in launching blockades, both big and small throughout Serbia, calling attention to the systematic corruption of President Aleksandar Vučić and members of the Serbian Progressive Party. These protests followed as a result…

Red July: A Message for Students from Concerned Teachers at BRAC University, Bangladesh

August 4, 2024

Dear students, July 2024 has been a frightful month in the history of Bangladesh. A few of us, individuals, who also happen to be your teachers from BRAC University wanted to send a message of solidarity and our love to you. This is not an official letter endorsed by the administration, university, or departments but…

Progressive South Asians Solidarity Statement for Bangladesh’s Student Protesters

July 21, 2024

21 July 2024 Progressive South Asians stand in solidarity with Bangladesh’s students who are protesting the quota system. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Bangladeshi government’s violent response to these peaceful protests, the communication blackout, and the ongoing curfew. The government’s repression has led to state forces murdering at least over 100 protesters in total as of…

AGITATE!'s First Digital Book

War News
A Collection of 90 Poems
By Beau Beausoleil

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Special Volume with CRES: Seditious Acts

Seditious Acts: Being in, But Not of, the Neoliberal University

By José Manuel Santillana Blanco, Kidiocus King-Carroll, Naimah Zulmadelle Pétigny, and Kong Pheng Pha

Introducing ‘Seditious Acts’: AGITATE! Special Volume with CRES

By AGITATE! Editorial Collective

I Have Been to the Future — We Won

By Simi Kang

Building Relations, Critical University Studies and Student Activism: A Conversation with Roderick A. Ferguson

By Kong Pheng Pha & José Manuel Santillana Blanco, with Roderick A. Ferguson

Brownness and Being in the Twenty-First Century

By Joy Mazahreh

Three Poems for Palestine by Faiz Ahmad Faiz

By Gwendolyn S. Kirk

Introduction to Section One: Infractions

By Richa Nagar

“Did they drag you here?”: Challenges of Existing as an International Student in the United States

By Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo

Seditious Intuition: Functional Containers and Bodies of Engagement

By William Amado Syldor-Severino

Violent Invisibilities: The Battle for Hmong and Southeast Asian American Legibility in Higher Education

By Kong Pheng Pha, Kaochi Pha, and Dee Pha

Introduction to Section Two: Transgressions

By Edén Torres

Moving Toward Transitional Pedagogies: The Second Sight of Graduate Students of Color in the Neoliberal University

By Ezekiel Joubert III

Toward a Marginal Understanding of Object Being in the Neoliberal University

By Emily Mitamura

A Cold Place: Notes on Antiblackness and the Neoliberal University

By Kidiocus King-Carroll

Introduction to Section Three: Insurgencies

By Rose M. Brewer

Unruly Subjects: On Student Activism, the Neoliberal University, and Infiltration

By José Manuel Santillana Blanco

Razing the Anti-Ebony Tower: An Academic ‘Grammar Book’

By Rahsaan Mahadeo

Within and Without the Settler University: Reflections on Decolonization, Spirituality and Research as Ceremony

By Marcelo Garzo Montalvo

Volume 5

Stories and Ecologies of Violence:
Walking Together in Solidarity and Silence/ Chup

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