Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative
A Response to Christopher Lebron's The Making of Black Lives Matter
How “Blue Lives Matter” Perpetuates Police Violence
Far from a peaceful call to protect police lives, the movement fosters an environment of fear, hatred, and racism.
In the aftermath of the recent killings of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte at the hands of police, the Blue Lives Matter hashtag rallied around a video of a group of black youth attacking a white man and taking his pants off in a parking garage in Charlotte. The caption that the most popular Blue Lives Matter twitter account provided for …
The Graham Rule, the Nuclear Option, and Pepsi Protesting
Past Present Episode 78
In this week’s episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate Mike Pence’s rules for women colleagues, the end of the Senate filibuster, and Pepsi’s attempt to coopt Black Lives Matter.
Antifa vs. Nazis: Where Has All The Violence Gone?
Despite warnings of precipitating a nascent civil war, antifascist violence has ended with the retreat of the far right
