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... position for both writing and political activism. utopias biography political feminist life writing about political activism This piece is about the inevitable uncertainty in the experience of writing. It analyzes different styles and describes the difficulty of being clear without...

... Puta activist Gabriela Leite cites a line from Manuel Bandeira’s poem “Poética” in one of her first writings about politics, published in 1991 in the Brazilian Prostitute Network’s newspaper, Beijo da rua . Reflecting on a failed protest against a rule prohibiting US Navy officers from visiting...

... of topics, from her discovery of language to her sense that the Indian elite has seceded into outer space, Roy maps the morality of being a writer in a world divided by divisive ideologies. Arundhati Roy India writing and activism politics In 2012, at the Jaipur Literature Festival...

.... The chapter concludes with a turn toward Black trans feminist potentials embedded within the image of Truth. Black feminism trans feminism trans-exclusionary feminism feminist history This chapter proceeds from writings by trans feminine people active in 1970s Trans Liberation political...

.... It includes a detailed discussion of the domestic work of the Women’s Committee and the need for continuing activism. Bulgaria women’s movement communism socialism breast cancer This chapter is a discussion with Elena Lagadinova and Maria Znepolska about Znepolska’s recent biography of Frank...

... This chapter examines two elements that are central to Díaz’s interventions into contemporary Latino/a cultural politics. The first is Diaz’s critical and assertive engagement with Latinidad and how this position impacts his work as well as his political involvements and activism. The second...

... it was a time when faith was strengthened and regrounded, and when many in seminary and elsewhere were influenced by the writing and teaching of Reinhold Niebuhr, who argued that while we know a lot about what is right and what is to be revered in individual behavior, we have made very little progress...

... through aesthetic questions as to what trans writing might become. The author imagines transition as an art of the body, which of necessity is also a politics of the body due to the infuriating obstacles put in the path of individual and collective self-transformation. The author creates, out of parts...

... land speculation Puta activist Gabriela Leite cites a line from Manuel Bandeira’s poem “Poética” in one of her first writings about politics, published in 1991 in the Brazilian Prostitute Network’s newspaper, Beijo da rua . Reflecting on a failed protest against a rule prohibiting US Navy...

... Willis, one of the earliest and most brilliant of the writers and organizers of the feminist second wave in the US. Willis was a radical who believed that it is pleasure and not self-denial that is the key to political engagement and effectiveness: “Radical politics is about being happy, not about being...

..., the excavation of new wells, and the relocation of industrial activities. The Venetian diarist Marin Sanudo observed: “Venice is in the water and has no water.” Indeed, the city had no source of fresh water other than the rain from heaven or barges from the mainland. The Venetians learned early on how...

... of the Pacific, she became an active educator, writer, and public advocate for women and children. She composed her poem “To Be Born a Man,” with its hard-hitting, mocking lines about gender discrimination, early in her writing career. Her epistolary novel Íntimas (Close Friends , 1913), written in a Romantic...

... audiences about major issues of social, political, ethical, and medical concern through lyrics and performance styles that raise awareness through a combination of contemporary information and traditional modalities of expression. Race was the primary social variable examined and articulated in the social...

... her poem “To Be Born a Man,” with its hard-hitting, mocking lines about gender discrimination, early in her writing career. Her epistolary novel Íntimas (Close Friends , 1913), written in a Romantic literary style that diverged from both the realist and modernist genres of the day, was a “novel about...

... the Bolivian state. Writing five years prior to the Chaco War (1932–35), the report was prescient about the disastrous consequences that would ensue if the country undertook an unconsidered war effort on the southern border with Paraguay. ...

... explores the “revolution in philosophy” represented by the Haitian Revolution. Schwarz is concerned principally with the question of how historical temporalities can be understood and what political consequences follow, and he asks, “what is the significance of James’s The Black Jacobins for the writing...

... to reports of lectures he gave to Indonesian audiences after his conference attendance, the Indonesian press reports constitute a previously untapped record of Wright’s Indonesian travels. Among the excitement and activity generated by the conference, both among Indonesia’s political elite and the crowds who...

... theater sankofa trilogy , benu , which has no lgbt characters. Though d’bi.young openly identifies as queer, Gill argues that she actively refuses static categories of sexual orientation, especially if they are based on parochial presumptions about sex/gender transparency and stability, which invites...