Read to Respond Wrap-Up

Several months ago we launched our  “Read to Respond” series to highlight some of our most groundbreaking scholarship engaged with today’s pressing issues. Each topic, from student activism to racial justice, is highlighted with a reading list that encourages students and teachers alike to join the conversation surrounding these current events. 

Revisit your favorite “Read to Respond” topics so far and share these resources in and out of the classroom. These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017.

• Articles for Student Activists
• Environmentalism and Climate Change
• Trans Rights
• Bathroom Politics
• Feminism and Women’s Rights
• Queer Studies
• Migration Studies
• Labor
• Racial Justice

Read to Respond: Racial Justice

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. This post focuses on racial justice, diving deep into topics such as racial identity, the Ferguson trial, and black activism. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Racial Justice

• “Which Black Lives Matter?: Gender, State-Sanctioned Violence, and ‘My Brother’s Keeper’”
  Xhercis Méndez
  Radical History Review, number 126
  October 2016
• “Black Lives Matter Everywhere”
  World Policy Journal, volume 33, issue 1
  Spring 2016
• “The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Ferguson Grand Jury Transcript”
  Nicholas Mirzoeff
  Social Text, number 126
  March 2016
• “All Power to All People? Black LGBTTI2QQ Activism, Remembrance, and Archiving in Toronto”
  Syrus Marcus Ware
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, issue 2
  May 2017
• Dossier: “On Race and Innovation”
  boundary 2, volume 42, issue 4
  November 2015
• “Needed Interventions to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health”
  David R. Williams and Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
  Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, volume 41, issue 4
  August 2016  
• “Super Slaves: Breeding and Controlling the Modern Black American Male through Sports”
  Steven W. Thrasher
  Radical History Review, number 125
  May 2016  
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
  Christina Sharpe
  2016
• Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
  Jane Lazarre
  2016
• Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
  Aimee Meredith Cox
  2015
• “Calvin’s Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership”
  Harel Shapira
  Public Culture, number 29
  May 2017
• Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
  Gary May
  2013
• “Lights, Camera, Police Action!”
  John L. Jackson Jr
  Public Culture, number 28
  January 2016  
  
  These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.

 

 

 

 

Read to Respond: Labor

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. This post focuses on labor, worker’s rights, and neoliberalism. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Labor

• “Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts: An Interview with David Graeber”
  Hannah Chadeayne Appel
  Radical History Review, number 118
  Winter 2014
• Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media
  Julie A.Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
  2017
• “‘A Woman’s Place Is in the UMWA’: Women Miners and the Struggle for a Democratic Union in Western Pennsylvania, 1973–1979”
  Trish Kahle
  Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, volume 13, issue 1
  February 2016
• “Trump’s Savage Capitalism: The Nightmare is Real”
  Enzo Traverso
  World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
  Spring 2017
• Against the Day: “Migrant Workers and New Forms of Exploitation: Europe and Beyond”
  Rutvica Andrijasevic and Devi Sacchetto, editors
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 114, issue 1
  January 2015
• Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
  James Ferguson
  2015
• “Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure”
  Shannon Cram
  Public Culture, volume 28, issue 3
  September 2016
• Youth, Labor and Politics in East Asia
  Gabriella Lukacs, editor
  positions: asia critique, volume 23, issue 3
  August 2015
• Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
  Denise Brennan
  2014
• Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
  Kathleen Barry
  2007

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

Read to Respond: Migration Studies

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. This post focuses on immigration in commemoration with World Refugee Day, an international movement that supports families forced to flee and honors the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Migration Studies

• “The Big Question: What Role Does the Media Play in Driving Xenophobia?”
  Natasha Bluth, Melody Chan, J. Olaf Kleist, Antony Loewenstein, Dominique Trudel, Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, and Sydette Harry
  World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
  Spring 2017
• “The Gates of Greece: Refugees and Policy Choices”
  Ismini A. Lamb
  Mediterranean Quarterly, volume 27, issue 2
  June 2016
• How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
  Edited by Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam
  2013
• “Categories and Queues: The Structural Realities of Gender and the South African Asylum System”
  B Camminga
  Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, number 1
  February 2017
• “Immigration Detention: No Turning Back?”
  Jennifer M. Chacón
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 113, number 3
  Summer 2014
• “The Illegalities of Brownness”
  Armando García
  Social Text, number 123
  June 2015
  
• Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
  Catherine Besteman
  2016
• “Regulating Borders and Bodies: U.S. Immigration and Public Health Policy” by Natalia Molina in Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century
  Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick
  2014
• The Ellis Island Snow Globe
  Erica Rand
  2005
• Special Section: “Immigration”
  Tikkun, volume 28, number 3
  Summer 2013

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

 

 

Read to Respond: Queer Studies

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. This post focuses on queer studies in celebration of Pride Month and yesterday’s Equality March for Unity & Pride. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Queer Studies

• Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
  Christina B. Hanhardt
  2013
• Against the Day: “Queer Theory after Marriage Equality”
  Ben Trott, editor
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 2
  April 2016
• No Tea, No Shade: New Writing in Black Queer Studies
  E. Patrick Johnson, editor
  2016
• “Emboldened by Outsiders, Restricted At Home: How Sexism Holds Back Queer Women in West and Central Africa”
  Robbie Corey-Boulet
  World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
  Spring 2017
• “‘Finally, She’s Accepted Herself!’ Coming Out in Neoliberal Times”
  Stephanie D. Clare
  Social Text, number 130
  June 2017
• “Queer Space in the Ruins of Dictatorship Architecture”
  Bobby Benedicto
  Social Text, number 117
  Winter 2013
• “Homomilitarism: The Same-Sex Erotics of the US Empire in Guam and Hawai‘i”
  Keith L. Camacho
  Radical History Review, number 123
  October 2015
• “Gays, Cross-Dressers, and Emos: Nonnormative Masculinities in Militarized Iraq”
  Achim Rohde
  Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, volume 12, number 3
  November 2016
• “Asexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive”
  Ela Przybylo and Danielle Cooper
  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 20, issue 3
  2014
• Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  2016

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

Read To Respond: Feminism and Women’s Rights

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. This post focuses on feminism and women’s rights with articles tackling topics from abortion laws, maternity leave, Islamic feminism, and more. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Feminism and Women’s Rights

• Living a Feminist Life
  Sara Ahmed
  2017
• “Islamic Feminism Revisited”
  Haideh Moghissi
  Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, volume 31, issue 1
  2011
• “A “Witch Hunt Against Poor Women”: Across the Americas, Abortion Laws are Harming Health and Security”
  Angelika Albaladejo
  World Policy Journal, volume 33, issue 4
  Winter 2016
• The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
  Kristen Hogan
  2016
• “Depicting Victims, Heroines, and Pawns in the Syrian Uprising”
  Edith Szanto
  Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, volume 12, issue 3
  November 2016  
• Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
  Edited by the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
  2016
• “Abortion, Abortion, Abortion, Still: Documentary Show and Tell”
  Shilyh Warren
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 114, issue 4
  October 2015
• “Maternity Leave Duration and Postpartum Mental and Physical Health: Implications for Leave Policies”
  Rada K. Dagher, Patricia M. McGovern, and Bryan E. Dowd
  Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, volume 39, issue 2
  April 2014
• “A Seat at the Table: The Fight for Gender Parity in Kenya and Somalia”
  Nanjala Nyabola
  World Policy Journal, volume 33, issue 4
  Winter 2016

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

Read To Respond: Bathroom Politics

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. This post focuses on bathroom politics, and how we make bathrooms accessible to people of different gender, ability, or class. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Bathroom Politics

• “‘Boys Over Here, Girls Over There’: A Critical Literacy of Binary Gender in Schools”
  Susan W. Woolley
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 2, number 3
  August 2015
• “Taking a Break: Toilets, Gender, and Disgust”
  Judith Plaskow
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, number 4
  October 2016

• “On Being the Object of Compromise”
  Cael M. Keegan
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 3, issue 1-2  
  May 2016

• “Stalled: Gender-Neutral Public Bathrooms”
  Joel Sanders and Susan Stryker
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

• “The Bathroom Problem” in Female Masculinity
  Jack Halberstam
  1998

• “Bathrooms and Beyond: Expanding a Pedagogy of Access in Trans/Disability Studies”
  Cassius Adair
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 2, issue 3
  August 2015

• “Other People’s Shit (and Pee!)”
  Alison Kafer
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

• “Ghana: The Waste Land” 
  Frankie Freeman
  World Policy Journal, volume 27, issue 2
  Summer 2010

• “Closure, Affect, and the Continuing Queer Potential of Public Toilets” 
  Dharman Jeyasingham
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

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

Read to Respond: Trans Rights

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. This post focuses on trans rights in light of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, a day dedicated to drawing the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public, and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTQIA+ people internationally. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Trans Rights

• “Introduction”
  Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 1, issue 1-2
  May 2014
• “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”
  Jasbir K. Puar
  Social Text, number 124
  September 2015
• “Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary”
  Joy Ladin
  Tikkun, volume 28, issue 4
  Fall 2013
• Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
  David Valentine
  2007
• “From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology”
  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley and Matt Richardson
  Small Axe, number 45
  November 2014
• “Radical Inclusion: Recounting the Trans Inclusive History of Radical Feminism”
  Cristan Williams
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 3, issue 1-2
  May 2016
• “Trans[ition] in Iran”
  Rochelle Terman
  World Policy Journal, volume 31, issue 1
  Spring 2014
• Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
  Afsaneh Najmabadi
  2013
• “Staging the Trans Sex Worker”
  Nihils Rev and Fiona Maeve Geist
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, issue 1
  February 2017
• Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
  Dean Spade
  2015

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

Read to Respond: Environmental Activism and Climate Change

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. This post focuses on environmentalism and climate change in light of Earth Day and the March For Science, a international series of rallies uniting scientists, science enthusiasts, and concerned citizens against recent anti-environmentalist legislation. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Environmental Activism and Climate Change

• Against the Day: “Environmental Activism across the Pacific”
  Teresa Shewry, editor
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 116, issue 1
  March 2017

• “Fracking Communities”
  Colin Jerolmack and Nina Berman
  Public Culture, volume 28, issue 2
  May 2016

• How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts
  Candis Callison
  2014

• “Environmentalism in the Corporate Climate”
  Eric Mann
  Tikkun, volume 31, issue 3
  August 2016

• “Fifty Shades of Green”
  Bruno Latour
  Environmental Humanities, volume 7 issue 1
  2015

• The Last Beach
  Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr. and J. Andrew G. Cooper
  2014

• “Clearing the Air”
  Christa Hasenkopf
  World Policy Journal, volume 29, issue 1
  March 2012

• Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
  David McDermott Hughes
  2017

• “Coursing through the Spill: Notes on Teaching Environmental Justice and Making the Academy Responsive to Contemporary Issues”
  Robert A. Gilmer
  Radical History Review, no. 116
  January 2013

• “The Case for Retreat”
  Liz Koslov
  Public Culture, volume 28, issue 2
  May 2016

Journal articles are freely available until August 15, 2017. To save 30% on the listed books, please use coupon SAVE30 on our website. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond. 

 

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.