‘We are part of the tapestry’: Black Iranians launch collective

September 23, 2020

by Behdad Mahichi (from Aljazeera)   She sits with an air of reflection, a tea in one hand, staring into the moon over the Gulf through the window. Next to her are two books, one titled Iranian. The second one is opened – and on a fresh page she has written down and underlined the…

Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 2)

September 8, 2020

This 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…

Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 1)

August 31, 2020

This 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…

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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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…

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Academics Denounce Attempts to Shut Down the People’s Water Forum 2024 in Bali, Indonesia

May 20, 2024

20th May, 2024 Latest Alert: People’s Water Forum in Bali Intimidated and Forced to Disband: Repeated Practice of Silencing Freedom of Opinion at the Momentum of International Forums [Read the statement in Bahasa Indonesia and Spanish here. List of signatories are also included.] We, the undersigned, are writing to denounce recent efforts to suppress the…

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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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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

Where is the Moral Fortitude of the University’s Leader? Palestinian Rights are Human Rights

By Nadia Aruri

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

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