Disruption has been critical to the emergence of new subjects and subjectivities. Here you will find documents by subjects who rejected their given roles, descriptions, and functions in order to redefine themselves on new terms.
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The National Liberation Movement Al-Fateh (1960s/70s)
This document is an outline to familiarize the public with the demands and organization of Fateh, a political party within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) advocating against the occupation of Palestine. This…
bell hooks – Feminism is for Everybody (2000)
bell hooks is a feminist, professor, and activist. In 2000, she published “Feminism is for Everybody”. Key to her politics and feminist philosophy is that the overarching “enemy”/structure to dismantle is the “white supr…
ActUP Staged “Die-In” at Bill De Blasio’s Inauguration
ActUP members stage a Die-In to symbolize those whom the government’s negligence has killed.
Aihwa Ong’s “State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women’s Bodies and the Body Politic in Malaysia” (1987)
Tensions between Islamic revivalism and the Malaysian state disrupt everyday family life and women’s bodily autonomy, reorganizing power and reshaping social norms.
We Demand – Vietnam War
Students demand the US Government end the systemic oppression of political dissidents and release all political prisoners, stop the escalation, end the war in Vietnam, and withdraw forces from Southeast Asia.
The Cochabamba Water Wars: An Interview with Oscar Olivera (2011)
The Bolivian Water Wars were a series of protests and civil unrest against the privatization of water and rising water rates in the city of Cochabamba, primarily in 2000. This interview was conducted in 2011 with Oscar O…
Newsletter by the Free Speech Movement (November 17, 1964)
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserte…
Hawon Jung’s Flowers of Fire (2023)
Women in South Korea unite in protest against the violence they have faced under long-standing patriarchal values. They break from the norm of silence and redefine women as outspoken rather than passive.
Press Release from The New School Students for Justice in Palestine
Over the past weeks at various universities across the United States, students have erected encampments to demand action to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. These protests have arisen on the campuses of some of the…
The Furies- Lesbian/Feminist Monthly (1972)
In this first volume of the monthly publication by the Furies, the group introduces themselves and and their ideology, which is based on reforming the avenues taken by women in their liberation so that do not fall prey t…
Politics of the Ego- A Manifesto for the New York Radical Feminists
Herstory Monologues – Women Against Imperialism (1990)
This 1990 performance piece, “herstory,” amplifies the voices of diverse women confronting oppression while celebrating resistance. Personal anecdotes are intertwined with political demands, highlighting the interconne…
A Terrorist Call for “Building a Red Army” (1970)
Between 1970 and 1998, the Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialism, Communist leftist militia The Red Army Faction was labeled as a terrorist organization in first West Germany, and then unified Germany. In this…
AIDS Activism- “By Any Means Necessary”
Kirk Mason urges his AIDS negative and positive community members to refuse the governments death sentence to LGBTQ+ folks living with AIDS.
Preface to The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon (1961)
This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
Bucknell University Declares Moratorium – 1970
Bucknell University declared a moratorium on classes where students and faculty joined together to defy the war going on in Vietnam
Manifesto of the Fast Food Worker – Socialist Alternative (U.S.) (2003)
The Manifesto of the Fast Food Worker was published in 2003 by U.S. based group, the Socialist Alternative. This piece is broken into an introduction, the history and economics of the fast food industry, the treatment of…
Che Guevara: “Mobilizing the Masses for the Invasion” (1961)
“Mobilising the Masses for the Invasion” was a speech given to workers prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion by Che Guevara in 1961. The speech heavily focused on Latin American solidarity against US impealism. Che Guevara w…
Ania Loomba’s “Dead Women Tell No Tales”
Representations of the sati-widow from the colonial era to the postcolonial period uncover deep fractures in the colonial, patriarchal, nationalist, and feminist systems that tried to define her.
