Occupied Joy: The Politics of Skateboarding in Palestine
Explore the Palestinian youth skateboarding subculture as a site of quotidian anticolonial and anti-imperialist resistance, which Ruba H. Akkad calls “Occupied Joy”
Free to read in American Quarterly through 16 February.
Urgent Archives: A How-To Guide
“What does it mean to be the one who remembers?” asks Ted Kerr in Feminist Formations. What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free through 16 February.
"The Total Subversion of All Rule": Countering Slavery in Colonial and Imperial Contexts
The new Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History is a special issue focused on “Subversion, Slavery, and the Work of Empire.” Read the intro from guest editors Crystal Eddins and Zach Sell for free through 16 February
New in Diacritics: A conversation with Frank Wilderson III, author of the monograph Afropessimism (2020), on the struggle of being a subject that can never travel from dispossession to redemptive recovery. Read free through 16 February.
The Makings and Meanings of Childhood: Parents and the Juvenile Justice System in Interwar Palestine
In the new Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Julia Shatz studies the ways childhood was the political capital through which colonial power was both constructed and contested in the juvenile justice system of interwar Palestine.
Read free through 16 February.
In Defense of Punks and Monsters: Julia Ducournau and Titane
Julia Ducournau’s Titane won the Palme d’Or in 2021 for its portrayal of Alexia, a "monstrous" punk resisting normative limits. In The French Review, Michèle Bacholle considers Alexia as a character proposing a fluid, inclusive and caring society.
Read free through 16 February.
Early Modern English literature frequently invoked sulfur as the aroma of hell, demons and wickedness — until this perception began to shift with the Industrial Revolution “Dispersing the Devil’s Stench,” new in Partial Answers.
Read free through 16 February.
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist
Many know Zora Neale Hurston best for her work in fiction, but she began her career as a physical anthropologist and an acute critic of eugenic methods who anticipated the racism built in to modern facial recognition algorithms.
Read more at MFS Modern Fiction Studies, free thru 16 February