The photo I decided to share this week documents the militarized state police arresting water protectors during the NoDAPL events of 2016, when the combined police forces of five states combines to take over the 1851 Treaty Camp.

During the height of #NoDAPL, almost 1000 water protectors were arrested. In February of 2019, over two years since…[Read more]

This week, we reflected on the ways that gender, race, and sexuality intersect in activism combatting sexual harrassment a la #MeToo. The movement is about combatting the actions taken by people who believe that they are entitled to the bodies of marginalized people. According to Tarana Burke, founder of the movement, #MeToo doesn’t need more…[Read more]

Despite the fact that students have been pushing for change for almost 50 years now, Harvard University doesn’t have an Ethnic Studies program. Earlier this month, two Asian American studies professors at Harvard decided to leave the university. One of these professors, Natasha Warikoo, was refused tenure in November.

As a result, students and…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For this week’s photo share, I chose to share the album cover for Logic’s “Everybody” (2017). One of the songs on this album, ‘America’, is a critique of American politics in the light of Donald Trump’s election. In class, we spoke about how hiphop, like any genre, is not a monolith. There are some sectors that…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose a MLK Jr. meme created by Twitter user @DJRarela as an alternative to the more white-palatable memes that would be spread during MLK’s birthday. Tagged #InconvenientMLK/#ReclaimMLK, the meme shows a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. with a quote from his Letter from a Birmingham Jail superimposed. The quote…[Read more]

The photo I am sharing this week is of Roxsana Hernandez, a transgender asylum seeker fleeing violence in Honduras. She arrived at a U.S. port of entry in May of 2018, and was treated horrifically by ICE, which led to her death only eight days later. Recently, an autopsy was released that showed that she died of dehydration with HIV complications,…[Read more]

The photograph I chose to share this week is from a 2011 performance art piece called Borrando la Frontera by artist Ana Teresa Hernandez. The criminality of undocumented people is a de facto crime of status: by their mere existence in the country, they are criminals. The U.S.-Mexico border is the one most heavily focused on right now. The dark…[Read more]

The photo I chose to share this week is a flyer from this year’s San Francisco Day of Remembrance events. The event is held in mid February, near the 19th, which is the date on which Executive Order 9066 was signed. This year’s events in San Francisco were not only in memory of the horrific treatment of Japanese Americans, but in conjunction with…[Read more]

The photo I chose this week is the cover of James Baldwin’s 1976 illustrated children’s book, “Little Man, Little Man.” The story followed the day of a Black child named TJ  who was based on Baldwin’s nephew Tejan. “Little Man, Little Man” was questioned about its content, which many readers felt wad not age appropriate for a child. Of course,…[Read more]

The photo I chose was taken in 1967 at the Harlem Peace March to End Racial Oppression, a multiracial coalition of activists protesting racism and the war in Vietnam. In it, two marchers hold a banner that reads, “End Racial Oppression! Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,” and another holds a sign reading, “No Black Man Ever…[Read more]