Happy Labor Day! – From Jasiri X
Beautiful new Midwest/workers love from Pittsburgh-based emcee and activist Jasiri X. Today let’s honor all workers’ struggles by continuing our commitment to them in the present, and connecting them to […]
Category Archives: Economic Justice
Two Sickening Conferences Coming Up Quick
There are two amazing conferences coming up in Chicago in the next few weeks. The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Organization have […]
To Fight Back: Non-Violence, Militant Feminism and Education
“How do people who are starving go on a hunger strike? How do people who have no money boycott goods?” – Arundhati Roy, Field Notes on Democracy Violence is a […]
Five Things Standardized Testing Makes Worse
I recently (finally) quit a job I had as an academic tutor at a magnet school in Chicago. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, magnet schools are public […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ratchet: How We Talk About Our Own Communities
A group of good friends of mine and I had a long talk the other night about segregation in Chicago, and the different communities with which we associate. The conversation […]
Working Girls: Or; What, Exactly, Is Dangerous About Sex Work?
A friend of mine recently shared with me that she is thinking about registering with an escort service to make some extra money. We had a long conversation about what […]
No Se Vende: Gentrification and Its Resistance
We live in an era where claims are commonly made, and largely accepted, that the U.S. has made such significant and irrefutable progress from its past of racial struggle that […]
Dance as Community Organizing: Building a Vogue Practice Space
I began voguing as a high school student, drawn to the art form because I had so little support and community as a queer person of color in my hometown. […]
Parent Involvement and Community Education
I have been performing my graduate observations this semester at a Mexican cultural school, housed within another larger CPS school. The cultural school was started in the 1990s by a […]
Teacher/Cop: Complicating the School-to-Prison Pipeline
“The classroom shares a genealogy with the technology of the prison.” – Dylan Rodriguez The Chicago Teachers’ Strike represented both a galvanizing and fracturing shift in the U.S. political discourse, […]
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