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Demolition Politics in India: An Anti-Muslim, Anti-Dissent Strategy

July 23, 2022

By AGITATE! Editorial Collective  In the past few months, the Indian state under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has weaponized yet another mechanism of terror as part of its virulent anti-Muslim pogrom: the demolition of Muslim homes. Since coming to power in 2014, but especially after it was reelected in the 2019 elections, the BJP…

Life, War, and Everything Else

July 14, 2022

By Roksana Bahramitash Long ago, I took refuge from a war and settled in the unceded land of Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. I now live in Tiohtià:ke, known as Montreal, and at times feel like I am an accomplice by default, with the white European settlers. ********* I left Iran, a country, where the sunflowers of my…

Shimu–Made in Bangladesh: A story of women’s struggles

July 8, 2022

By Elora Halim Chowdhury Rubaiyat Hossain’s Shimu—Made in Bangladesh,[1]Shimu—Made in Bangladesh was jointly produced by France, Denmark, Portugal, and Bangladesh. The main financing came from international grants from CNC, Eurimages, Sørfond+, and the Danish Film … Continue reading which had made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, finally had its premiere in…

AGITATE! presents

In Kashmir: Writing Under Occupation

Selected Poems

By Ather Zia

 

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AGITATE!'s First Digital Book

War News
A Collection of 90 Poems
By Beau Beausoleil

Cover image of War News. White text on a black and red background.

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নারীর ডাকে মৈত্রীযাত্রা | Women’s March for Solidarity 2025

June 24, 2025

Women’s March for Solidarity Declaration May 16, 2025, Dhaka Friends and comrades, We are united here again today at a moment of urgency and reckoning after the unprecedented July 2024 uprising. Our demand is for a democratic and just Bangladesh, where dignity and rights of all people will be based on the shared values ​​of…

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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…

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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…

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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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