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Mourn the martyrs: On the Death of the good Renee Good

I don’t know what is going to happen, in terms of us, the people, holding to solidarity, visionary actions, and sustaining our coalition and ourselves in the face of this brutal rising dictatorship in the U.S., but I do know this–those who are grabbing power are not waiting for the ballot. They are using bullets.…

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Community Organizing in 2025 Requires a Whole of Society Approach

I have been thinking about how we concerned with community change need a new approach that matches our current circumstances. I teach an Introduction to Community Change course. It’s a Humanities course, and I use a great book, Twitter and Teargas, by Zeynep Tefekci, as a core text, along with other readings and some films,…

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Wynter’s Queer Revolution: Community Organizing and the Future of the Humanities is a call to action and practical guide for teaching humanities in the polycrisis, emerging from the wisdom of colleagues teaching Community Change Studies at public colleges, framing praxis with a provocative vision for a generative Community Organizing Humanities.

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Advance Praise for Wynter’s Queer Revolution from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Eman Abdelhadi, Caroline Levine, Nara Roberta Silva

Why Community Organizing Humanities?

  • If you have ever wondered “what’s the point of education right now?” this framework offers a new way to approach the humanities in the f*&%tangle we are in (the polycrisis, the interregnum, what have you) grounded in practices of collective struggle. (Check out “Hey there Communitarian Revolutionary Subject Texting in My Class” for a taste.)
  • emerges from the wisdom of colleagues teaching Community Change Studies at public colleges with Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income students across the U.S.
  • provokes an undisciplined project for the humanities: cultivating “revolutionary collective subjects” through the generative insights queer theory alongside the decolonial thought of Sylvia Wynter’s demand for the humanities and education write large as “initiation” into a “new science of origin stories” for the human species