What does it mean for researchers to go on strike? What lessons can be drawn from this strike for other unionizing researchers?
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Israel is bent on continuing the genocide and it is incumbent on every human being to do what they can to stop it. We must not look away.
Reimagining disability as a social construct rather than a personal deficit demands a cultural transformation. Current narratives often reduce disability to a limitation, feeding a culture of shame and exclusion. Instead, we must...
In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metastasis lays out the story of cancer...
burning grasses, burning trees,
fire
surging to form smoke, the shape of leaves,
meshwork, seeds, hiding somewhere behind the hills,
I turn to the trees, their truncated bodies like ghosts of women
in ashen amber sheaths.
It is undeniable that science generally and GW research specifically are shaped by the politics of the society in which they are done. Rather than pretend to exist in a politically neutral space, GW scientists should embrace their part in...
The Art of Becoming Ecologists in a Dying World By Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan This is a modified excerpt from The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists, published by The New...
The divestment movement must reckon with the financialization of US universities—their subjection to the imperative of growth and reliance on interest-accruing wealth to reproduce themselves. Student-workers at this intersection of the...
Born to anglophone parents in the dark days of Duplessis’s McCarthyite Québec, Canada, Dr. Donna Mergler grew into her role as both a scientist and an activist as Québec began to free itself from the chokehold of anglophone capital and...
On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Barnhart Island. The “Akwesasne 8” was exercising their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, and...