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The Black Trans Short Film Festival was so much more than short films
On a balmy spring day in late April, I joined an enthusiastic congregation at the Full Frame Theater in Durham, North Carolina for the second annual Black Trans Short Film Festival.
F*ck The Fourth: A Scalawag Reading List
As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July.
The Southern Students Manifesto For Academic Freedom
We, a coalition of students, staff, faculty, and alumni at The University of Texas at Austin, amplify the discontent of communities across the United States. We are tired of the senseless elimination of educational opportunities under the guise of neutrality, the increasing implementation of gag rules that demolish systems of shared governance, and most alarmingly—the…
How the People's Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage
As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism.
Letters from the Free City of Maroon
Three months ago, when the Education Debt Recovery officers came for me — apparently my college loans had been sold to a collection agency that operates child labor camps — I ran. Not just away from something, but toward something. Toward here, Maroon.
The Black Census Project
Again and again, Black communities treated democracy not as a gift to be gratefully received, but as a system that could and must be made to work as advertised.