Posts by agitatejournal

We are the Sibling Cotravelers, Alliyah, Ariel, Devan, Kerry, Jeanette, Maya, and Richa, who have emerged from the class of SWG 300: Feminist Ways of Knowing taught by Richa at Smith College. Throughout the Fall 2024 semester, we embarked on a journey together rooted in collectivism, care, and the labors of unlearning and relearning. As…

Born from the flinty ground, Ki’en is a grief astronomer who longs to taste the language of trees. Though technically they are Wolf clanned, Ki’en lives in a house of frogs with a beloved Wren. There is singing every day and there is laughter. On the shores of Kanyatari:io, within the territories of Sewatokwa:tshera’, Ki’en…

Melissa Murray-Mutch is an actor, producer, playwright, and arts educator whose work bridges professional performance and arts-based learning. Having taught in both Canada and the United States, she uses her training and experience in theatre, film, and television to help students develop confidence, creativity, and empathy through storytelling and character creation. Her approach encourages students…

Maddi Chan is a writer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council–funded scholar, and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her creative and scholarly work is shaped by Caribbean-feminist, queer, and anticolonial epistemologies and invested in the disruptive and generative potentialities of Caribbean women’s embodied knowledge in Western medicine…

Stephanie Rico is a Chicana scholar, educator, and PhD Candidate in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, interested in photographing and archiving moments of conviviendo, the Spanish word meaning to live together. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council–funded research in the public humanities involves working with the Pedagogies of Hope…

Rajeshwari Nandkumar is an international student pursuing her PhD in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her research spans postcolonial, gender and sexuality, new media, and diaspora studies. Her doctoral dissertation examines representations of sex work in post-globalization India through the lens of “carceral fantasies”—a conceptual framework she is developing to…