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Decolonize Bangladesh’s Dominant Environmentalism
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Decolonizing, that is attentive to our complicities, is more than a practice of critique and reflection. It is an insurgent orientation toward political futuring or prefiguring—one that reclaims planning, environmental knowledge, and memory from the logics of dispossession. It involves making space for radically different epistemologies and practices that emerge from the daily lifeworlds of riverine communities.
A message from Gaza, from the writer Amal Abu Asi
agitatejournalFeminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! — Diverse Feminist Collective, Bangladesh, April 2025
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Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! As feminists, activists, artists, researchers, and organizers who are rooted in movements, and movement building for the right to self-determination, we stand in solidarity with our comrades resisting genocide and are joining the fight for liberation of Palestine. We refuse…
Nature with Culture: Learning from Afro-Colombian feminists to imagine gender beyond the human
agitatejournalBy 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…
Series Co-editors’ Prologue to Sowmya Ramanathan’s Agitation, “Nature with Culture: Learning from Afro-Colombian feminists to imagine gender beyond the human”
agitatejournalBy 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…
Doing History Through Art: The Story of the Green Glasses
agitatejournalBy Kamala Vasuki and Ponni Arasu *This is the second offering by Ponni Arasu and Kamala Vasuki in the Doing History Through Art cluster 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.* Vasuki and I are living through the worst…
Ratne vijesti: The Croatian translation of War News
agitatejournalInicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu i časopis AGITATE! objavljuju Ratne vijesti u prijevodu Vere Vujović, hrvatsku verziju zbirke War News pjesnika Beau Beausoleila. Knjiga donosi pjesme nastale u prvih stotinu dana genocida u Gazi. Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu ugostila je pjesnika i članice uredničkog kolektiva časopisa AGITATE! tijekom jedne od mjesečnih višejezičnih poetskih večeri “Gaza Undated”…
AGITATE! Celebrates Professor Shailaja Paik’s Recognition as a MacArthur Fellow!
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TRANSLATIONS: ARABIC | BANGLA | CROATIAN | HINDI | MALAYALAM | MARATHI | SPANISH | TAMIL | TELEGU “By studying the inequalities and the dehumanization of people, we can provide new ways to think about universal humanity and universal emancipation.” This agitational insight comes from the historian Shailaja Paik, whose ingenious, creative, and rigorous…
Who Makes Us
agitatejournalJade Wong Using dialogue and visuals, “Who Makes Us,” a 9-minute piece which invites viewers into a conversation between two college friends: myself, a child of Chinese immigrants, and Kiara, an immigrant from the Philippines. Through this conversation, we explore themes of invisible labor, motherhood, and community. The first part of the video focuses on…
আমাদের দেশ সংস্কারের স্বপ্নরেখা | Our Dreams for Reconstruction
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তুমি কে? আমি কে? বিকল্প! বিকল্প!Who are you? Who am I? Change! Change! আমরা বাংলাদেশের নিম্ন-আয়ের, নন-বাইনারি এবং আদিবাসী কুইয়ার মানুষদের একটি সংগঠন। শিক্ষার্থী ও তরুণ হিসেবে বাংলাদেশের চলমান বৈষম্যবিরোধী ছাত্র আন্দোলনের সাথে আমরা যুক্ত ছিলাম, আছি এবং থাকবো। বাংলাদেশকে ফ্যাসিবাদ মুক্ত করার এই ছাত্র-জনতা গণঅভ্যুত্থানে যারা আমাদের সাথে আছেন তাদের সকলকে আমরা সংহতি জানাই।…
Diverse Feminist Collective Open Letter
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”― Audre Lorde “Everything that is experimented on the Hills will be implemented in the plain land.” —Kalpana Chakma Dear Reader, We are a newly formed collective of activists, artists, researchers, teachers, human rights defenders, and individuals from systematically…
ধৈর্যশীল বিকল্পের খোলা চিঠি
agitatejournal৬ই আগস্ট ২০২৪ বা ৩৭ জুলাই ২০২৪ যেভাবেই বলি না কেন, ৩০ জন ব্যক্তির একটি কালেক্টিভ একটি খোলা চিঠির মাধ্যমে বাংলাদেশের মানুষকে স্বৈরতন্ত্রের পতনের জন্য অভিনন্দন জানায় এবং এই নতুন বাংলাদেশকে বৈচিত্র্যময় লিঙ্গ ও যৌনতার মানুষেরা কীভাবে দেখতে চায় তার প্রস্তাবনা হাজির করে। ধৈর্য্যশীল বিকল্প একদল গবেষক ও এক্টিভিস্টদের সংঘ। অ্যাজিটেট! তাদের চিঠি ও দাবিগুলো…
The Red Muharram: An Ode to the Martyrs of July
agitatejournalNironjon Artist’s Statement The Patriotic Olive green terror marching past the maimed corpses of the deceased after emptying barrels of 7.62mm and its genocidal appetite, pig sirens became our midnight lullabies while the drones & Helicopters dropping sound grenades as if we were not already deafened from the fallacious gibberish of news headlines. The balcony…
Exodus from Ireland
agitatejournalMarwan Makhoul Hindi translation by Richa Nagar | Urdu translation by Abdul Aijaz & Gwendolyn Kirk I arrived in Ireland and my coat cried out:You’ve gone abroad, my friend, but left me at home!Perhaps it was an omen,for missiles were embracing over my familyin Galilee, when I weakened and accepted Annemarie’s invitation.I came to read…
“We can do everything, but we can’t do it all at once”: Motherhood, Children’s Books, and Activism in Conversation with Madelaine Cahuas
agitatejournalFatemeh Nasr Esfahani & Wendy Lutter with Madelaine Cahuas Madelaine: Good morning. Hi, everyone! How are you all doing?[1]This conversation took place on December 1st, 2023, via Zoom, from 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM. Fatemeh: We’re doing great. We’re so excited that you can give us some time. Madelaine: Thank you. Fatemeh: Ok, so…
Making Home, Not Taking It: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Zionism from South Africa Today
agitatejournalBy Koni Benson This article was originally published on African Arguments (February 17, 2024), and is republished here with the author’s permission. It is common to hear people say that history repeats itself, but history does not repeat itself; people repeat themselves, which is why it is important to place the struggle for Palestinian liberation,…
Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 1)
agitatejournalThis is the first installment in a two-part series on Tamil Feminist Theater We live in a time when conflict and destruction are no longer the exception but the norm. It may be natural disasters or conflicts created by State and non-state institutions and individuals. It often feels like a dark cloud is looming over…
Singhu: The Unwritten
agitatejournalby Simona Sawhney This piece was originally published on Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes— a platform for narratives, public meetings, songs, talks, discussion on dalits. The response of the mainstream media to the protesting farmers at Singhu and Tikri, like that of the government, oscillates between pity and indignation. On the one hand, there…
Healthy Living
agitatejournalWomen of Color Should Be the Ones Remaking U.S. Foreign Policy
agitatejournalby Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind, and Cindy Wiesner In the 2020 presidential election, Black women, Indigenous women and people of color across the country delivered the votes to throw Donald Trump out of office. These voters want a new era in policy priorities, requiring radical change to the status quo—not just when it comes to U.S.…
Some Thoughts on the U.S. Presidential Election
agitatejournalby Sima Shakhsari As we anxiously wait for the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, many who are rightly worried about the ramifications of another four years under Trump’s presidency have hoped that Trump’s removal would restore the American democracy. This hope for restoration raises several concerns, that while not particular to this…
Artwork
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by Sunil Awachar Dr Sunil Abhiman Awachar is a poet, painter and Assistant Professor at the Department of Marathi, University of Mumbai, India. He is a full-time activist in the Dalit human rights movement. He has published four anthologies of poetry in Marathi, that include ‘Global vartamanachya kavita (2008)’ ‘Mi mahasattechya darashi katora gheun ubha…
(Too) Great Expectations? On Fieldwork, Guidelines, and Ethics in Human Geography
agitatejournalby Mark Anthony Arceño, Deondre Smiles, Emelie Bailey, Anurag Mazumdar, Thelma Vélez, J.P. Wilson, Kelly Yotebieng, and Kendra McSweeney ABSTRACT This blog post engages the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) 2009 “Statement on Professional Ethics.” We argue that the Statement falls short in helping us (students) understand how we know if we are doing…
Beautiful Damaged People
agitatejournalby Abhay Flavian Xaxa Among the doom and gloom they smile, Mistaken for idiots by the mad rational world. The Adivasis, beautifully damaged people! On the treasures of iron, gold and diamond they sit, Poor and powerless, holding the curse of nature. The curse of loving their land , water, forest, where they prefer…
कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी… Which Methodology…
agitatejournalby विनायक लष्कर (Vinayak Lashkar) कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी… -विनायक लष्कर कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी वापरून आमच्या जिवंतपणाचं तुम्ही संशोधन करताय गुर्जीतुमच्या मेलेल्या सिद्धांतांनीआमचं जिवंत असणं कधीच नाकारून टाकलंय…संख्या फेकण्यात तर तुम्ही सराईत तज्ञ आहात गुर्जीपण कोणत्या पद्धती वापरून तुम्ही करणार आहातआमच्या शोषलेल्या रक्ताचं गुणात्मक विश्लेषण…संशोधन पेपरांचे तर तुम्ही ढिगावर ढिग रचतच चाललाय गुर्जीपण आमच्या घामाची शाई तुम्हाला कधीच उमटवता येणार नाही कागदावर…राष्ट्रीय, आंतरराष्ट्रीय पातळीवर टाय कोट…
‘We are part of the tapestry’: Black Iranians launch collective
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Rest
agitatejournalby Amoke Kubat These times; Coronavirus now called COVID-19. The whole world is on lockdown. People are fearful, confused, defiant and restless. Somebody must have cried out from the wilderness, “What next, God?” I asked myself privately, “Is this when Hell freezes over?” I am sleepless with such questions. I am concerned but not…
Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 2)
agitatejournalThis is the second installment in a two-part series on Tamil Feminist Theater We live in a time when conflict and destruction are no longer the exception but the norm. It may be natural disasters or conflicts created by State and non-state institutions and individuals. It often feels like a dark cloud is looming over…
Life After an Earthquake is the Labor of Reconstruction
agitatejournalby Emina Bužinkić According to the Volcano Discovery network, over the last 30 days, Croatia was shaken by at least 500 earthquakes, leaving at least seven people dead, dozens were injured, and thousands had to leave their homes. The strongest one — measuring at a 6.4 magnitude — struck the area around Petrinja, central Croatia, on December…
Palestinian in Hiroshima
agitatejournalBy Mazin Qumsiyeh I and Oliver Stone both spoke at Hiroshima on the anniversary of the first nuclear bombing in human history and we are slated to speak in two days at Nagasaki on the anniversary of the second nuclear attack. My speech is below in English (I will send the Japanese version later). These…