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... and transfeminism. The authors begin by considering the significance of Riley’s unconventional title, outlining what might be at stake—and what might be occluded—in the title’s allusion to Sojourner Truth’s interjection, “Ain’t I a woman?” Allusion and juxtaposition form key aspects of Riley’s approach...

... ways to think about the history of racial capitalism, (re)productive dispossession, and the possibility of its refusal. The article concludes by considering how Spillers’s complex insights about the process of ungendering might yet be mobilized to secure truly substantive forms of reproductive justice...

... might be altogether refused in the future. Works Cited Arruzza Cinzia , Bhattacharya Tithi , and Fraser Nancy . Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto . London : Verso , 2019 . Baptist Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism...

... that these resources can sometimes be understood not merely as educational tools but also as digital commemorations of slave revolt. Finally, engaging with theory on monuments, memory, and history, this piece explains why digital commemorations existing in virtual space might productively acknowledge our discomfort...

.... In response to the apparentsilence ofenslaved voices in the archive, Hartman called for a "critical fabulation;' an approach which at­ tempts "to jeopardize the status of the event, to displace the received or authorized account, and to imagine what might have happened or might have been said or might have...

... ourselves be governed by a fear of being seen as “inaccessible,” and so forth, we are walking into a trap that we might not ever get out of. In a discipline that is too often enamored of what the “Theses” bitingly refer to as “impotent storytelling,” any insistence on time and space for some critical...

... body of work (for example, Marx, Foucault, or Frank Wilderson), 1 just as one might the Gospels or Paul’s epistles to the Corinthians. Hall certainly offers us critical tools for grappling with the contemporary moment, but a distinctive quality of his writing is his ability to offer key insights...

..., and also recent academic-and, indeed, nineteenth-century-uses of the term referring most frequently to possibilities and practices deviating from the norm. For twenty-first-century readers, the novel'sexplanation for queer differ­ ence might very well seem like an all too familiar and reductive...

... account claimed that the 1918 pandemic had reshaped human history, but then had somehow disappeared, leaving little historical trace. What does this curious idea—that an epoch-shaping pandemic was (or even could be) forgotten—imply for our present crisis? Should historians worry that COVID-19, too, might...

... tried to imagine two deadgirlsas shipmates, to envision the company History ofthe Present:Afournal ofCritical History, Vol. 6, No. 2 , Fall 2016. Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press HISTORY ofthe PRESENT andthe solace they might havefound in the arms ofone another, to consider whether one girl...

... of "belonging" to this religiously inflected tale of the universe remains an unempirical but nonetheless operative assumption of Christian's text and of Big History in general. This recrudescent spiritualism might be called the dark matter of Big History. In this essay I want to interrogate the positivist...

...; and ofthe emergence ofvast, million-square-kilometer "nutrient poor 'ocean deserts;" dead zoning the Atlantic and the Pacific.10 It is to speak ofdeclining oxygen concentrations in the upper strata ofthe ocean and the "mass extinction events" they might precipitate among the water's species; ofthe uniformly...

..., ifrepressionwas a grand unified theory of unhappiness, what are we to do now that we have banished repressionbut still remain unhappy? While Kafka is more speculative, even hesitant, about what the payoff might be in recuperating repression, he is clear about what happened to it.The culprit, as we all know...

..., as well as their legacies and afterlives, being analyzed” ( iii .6). What, then, is the role of ethics within the writing of history? And how might our ethics be connected to the psychic stakes we hold in our objects of study? As historians, what is our responsibility to the dead in our present...

..., and the language of the Other that seems to arrive from the outside but comes out of our inside, as our writing. This is what Lacan calls “extimity” (Miller). We might shift our focus, borrowing a gesture from Foucault, from the prohibitions against theoretically grounded history and historically grounded theory...

... a different "ecology ofknowing" that might undermine the epistemology ofenmity: It's not even necessarily true that the two make differentjudgments of"reality": it isn't that one ispessimistic and sees theglass as halfempty, while the other is optimistic andsees itas halffoll.In a worldfoll ofloss, pain...

.... The fury and window-breaking she evokes from within and beyond Familiar Stranger do more than pulse behind the text or break the surface. As modes of engagement and affective terrains emerging from both black British cultural studies and feminism—operating, one might say, between those two formations...

... Street lawyer involved with mortgages or to vacate the History ofthe Present:AJournal of Critical History, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2013. Copyright© 2 013 University of Illinois Press INTERVENTION Edelman office in which he also secretly squats by night, might serve as a figure for the Occupy movement's...

... and moral crisis within the British Empire. But it also contains, unwittingly and almost accidentally, traces of a world exorbitant to that empire-worlds in which Calderon's speech might have been treated as something more than noise. Historians of the case have taken this unstable process of moral, legal...

... and repair. That would require an ethical and political choice , and that choice has a far more tenuous relationship to questions of epistemology (to how we know, to what we know) than many of us might wish to believe. For all the desire to write a countercolonial history, to insist on further declassifying...