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The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
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The Pedagogy Lab & Center for Feminist Futures at UC Santa Barbara is seeking submissions for The Executive Dis/Order Project: Refusing Compliance.

This project is looking for original art on executive power and its effects on democracy to build a visual archive of resistance to US suppression. /1
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July 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1
A slide with a red background and white text that reads “Luigi Mangione, Giuseppe Zangara, and the Forgotten History of Italian American Radicalism by Sonia C. Gomez” with a short description that reads “Tracing the long 20th century history of Italian American radicalism through Giuseppe Zangarw and Luigi Mangione, Gomez illuminates their connections through their twinned disillusionment with capitalism and political resistance borne from chronic pain.” Accompanied by a black-and-white collage from left to right Giuseppe Zangara in prisoner uniform, Luigi Mangione in prisoner uniform surrounded by police escorts, and a Giuseppe Zangara portrait with three other men and a looping white arrow behind to point at the body text. A slide with a red background and a photograph from the Black Freedom Studies speaker series at Schomburg Center with four people seated on stage in the center with audience members in the foreground. The white text reads “State Violence and the Black Freedom Struggle by Lucien Baskin” and description “As part of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lucien Baskin interviews Mary Frances Phillips, Françoise Hamlin, and Orisabmi Burton for an event on State Violence: Prisons, Police, Politics.” A slide with a red background and a poster in red, gray, white, and black depicting a woman with her arms in chains breaking free surrounded by other revolutionary women and text reading “Hail To the Working and Struggling Women of the World.” The white text on the slide below reads “Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis Microsyllabus by Tagereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Goonar Nikpour” and a description reading “Spanning Iranian revolutions and revolutionary thought, carcerality, sociality, movement building, and the development of critical SWANA studies/Ethnic Studies, this micro syllabus facilitates engagement with radical Iranian thought instead of provincializing such work as area studies or even “counter-terrorism” studies.” A slide with a red background and a color photograph depicting a line of NYPD amassing to crack down on the International Women’s Day Global Strike for Gaza standing along the shoulder of a city street as passerby walk in front of them. Below, white text reads “Policing Solidarity: Lessons from the Drug War by Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot” and a short summary ”By linking drug policing to the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island, Eisenberg-Guyot enumerates how the specific mechanisms and tactics of the drug war inform and reify U.S. settler-colonial, imperialist, and racial capitalist interests domestically and abroad.”
July 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It is difficult to capture how the world was utterly transformed since October 7, 2023…This past summer, the Digital Collective joined those who encouraged a serious reflection on the violent administrative response to a wide range of student activism ... /1
October 30, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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"Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then left office disappointed by McCarthyism and the failure of pro-worker and anti-racist legislative efforts." /1
Rep. Marcantonio at his office, a trailer, with neighborhood children, ranging in age, from very young to teenagers. They are standing, some posing, some talking, with Marcantonio. The door to the trailer is open with some children standing inside the door frame, laughing. Marcantonio looks down at the child to his right, smiling warmly, with their arms around each other. The trailer reads "Congressional Office of your...Congressman," "Vito Ma....nio, "Meet him here," "PEACE," "Serves you..." Ellipsis in text signals what is blocked by the open door. Buildings line the top frame of the photo, behind Marcantonio's office.
August 9, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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The deadline has been extended until August 20!
abusablepast.bsky.social Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · Jul 16
Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.
August 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Deadline tomorrow!
abusablepast.bsky.social Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · Jul 16
Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.
August 6, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Looking for some reading material this weekend? Check out "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness," a microsyllabus by Aishah Scott. This piece focuses on how systemic marginalization intensified the AIDS crisis in Black communities. /1
August 2, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Deadline is today!
abusablepast.bsky.social Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · Jul 17
The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024.
More information here: abusablepast.org/a-call-for-s...
August 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024.
More information here: abusablepast.org/a-call-for-s...
July 17, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.
July 16, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024.

More information here: mtsacecachronicle.com/7839/world/u...
July 11, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Check out "Detention Nation: US Empire and Immigrant Prisons – Tina Shull and Elliott Young in Conversation." Dr. Elliott Young is a Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Tina Shull (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNC Charlotte.
July 8, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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In "Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again," Jeremy Peschard analyzes how U.S. policies tend to conflate asylum-seekers with having mental illnesses, harkening back to eugenics logic of the late 19th c.
A black and white image of a two-story brick structure surrounded by deciduous trees. A road leads up to the building. Caption: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
June 29, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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An essential piece from Dr. Charlotte Mertens this morning on the ways that colonialism informs and continues to shape contemporary sexual violence in the conflict of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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The Weapon of Sexual Violence and its Discontents – The Abusable Past
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February 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Explore our new microsyllabus, "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness" from Dr. Aishah Scott
which offers intersectional works from a variety of disciplines to commemorate the anniversary.

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Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness – The Abusable Past
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February 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Today on the The Abusable Past, Kat Fuller writes on misinformation and the devastating impact of residential school denialism in Canada.

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Residential School Denialism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Far-Right’s Genocidal Attack against Indigenous Peoples – The Abusable Past
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February 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time.

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Challenging and Documenting State Violence: A Conversation with Activist Kipp Dawson – The Abusable Past
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February 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Which side are you on?

This morning, @ajbauer.bsky.social writes on the parallels between the Second Red Scare and the current "Palestine Scare" in higher education.

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The Myth of the Liberal Dupe: What the Second Red Scare can teach us about the ongoing Palestine Sca...
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January 25, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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This morning we are excited to bring you a new Doing Radical History feature from @chrisapihlak.bsky.social! Chris tells us both a personal story and offers ideas about what social history can offer to trans studies.

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Trans Social History Amidst Trans Social Death – The Abusable Past
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January 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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New CFP for Radical History Review: Radical Histories of Decolonization 👇
jecca.bsky.social Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · Oct 27
New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...
October 27, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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Unfortunately, we are experiencing technical difficulties with our website host. While we work to fix it, you may have difficulties accessing The Abusable Past. We will update as soon as we have this sorted out!
October 23, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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This morning we have a new piece from @esmat.bsky.social , covering the state of postcolonial studies in Israel and its effect on Palestinian liberation. "A Dying Postcolonialism" is up now.
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A Dying Postcolonialism
By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it’s apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever more vocal and defensive about their…
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September 26, 2023 at 1:12 PM
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Gen Z students are more likely than any previous generation to engage in climate activism. That's why we're finishing up our back to school week with teaching resources on environmental justice.

Start with the microsyllabus from Danielle M. Purifoy.

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Microsyllabus: Environmental Justice in the United States
Compiled by Danielle M. Purifoy Environmental Justice (EJ) scholarship in the United States emerged in tandem with social movement activism during the 1980s. Environmental Justice activism and scho…
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September 19, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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As we dive into a new semester, reflect upon these commentaries on teaching from The Abusable Past. First up: "Not Caring, To Care: Radical Pedagogy During Covid-19"

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Not Caring, To Care: Radical Pedagogy During Covid-19
by Andy Urban With high temperatures in the mid-60s, March 2, 2020 was a nice day to be outside in central New Jersey. That morning, my “Society and Thought in the American Past” course met at the...
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September 18, 2023 at 8:08 PM