Read to Respond: Articles for Student Activists

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Articles for Student Activists:

• “Grounds for Hope”
  Rebecca Solnit
  Tikkun, volume 32, issue 1
  December 2016

• “Which Black Lives Matter?: Gender, State-Sanctioned Violence, and ‘My Brother’s Keeper’”
  Xhercix Méndez
  Radical History Review, #126
  October 2016
  
  
• “Same-Sex Marriage Litigation and Children’s Right to be Queer”
  Clifford Rosky
  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 22, issue 4
  October 2016
  
  
• “Stay Outraged: A Conversation with Masha Gessen”
  Masha Gessen
  World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
  March 2017

• “Calvin’s Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership”
  Harel Shapira
  Public Culture, #82
  May 2017

• “The Woman Question”
  Lori Watson
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 3, issue 1-2
  May 2016

• “The Missing Climate Change Narrative”
  Michael Segal
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 116, issue 1
  January 2017

• “‘A Sense of Possibility and a Belief in Collective Power’: A Labor Strategy Talk with Karen Nussbaum”
  Lane Windham
  Labor: Studies in Labor and Working Class History, volume 12, issue 3
  September 2015

• Against the Day: “The Politics of the Public Toilet”
  Kathi Weeks, editor
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016
  
  
• “Black is a Country: Building Solidarity Across Borders”
  Kehinde Andrews
  World Policy Journal, volume 33, issue 1
  March 2016

These articles are freely available until August 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.