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Let’s Build a Monument to Anastácia

An enslaved woman’s image that has traveled around the hemisphere can help us rethink slavery and memorialization

July 30, 2020 • by Marc Hertzman and Giovana Xavier

In May 2020, as the social movement to remove racist monuments grew and the COVID-19 pandemic spiraled out of control, two white women protesting against social distancing and masks were photographed with a sign. It read: “Muzzles are for dogs and slaves. I am a free human being.” It featured ...

Sexuality and Agency

A course at the New School for Public Engagement

February 21, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

This course is an exploration of various perspectives addressing the enabling and constraining conditions for sexual agency. Beginning with the question of how we might define agency as a psychological construct, we chart a course along theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, autobiographical, and popular renderings of what it means to have -- ...

The Meaning of Michelle

First Black First Lady as Outsider Within and Agent of Change

January 19, 2017 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. There are many aspects of the United States, of the political culture and system that I find interesting (to use a word that is telling without saying anything much). One of them is the office of the First Lady. There is ...