The Australian Navy pulls on the “inane gestures and aesthetics of social media” to normalize and expand military recruitment.

I discuss how the protests drew from well-established yet increasingly visible interventions by women and feminist organizations. However, I seek to track the contribution of the feminist movement more specifically, arguing that the protests built on tactics articulated, deployed, and circulated by La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción since 2016.

Through Beam’s detailed research on the political dynamics of LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations in Chicago and Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Gay, Inc. illuminates the ways in which capital mobilizes homonormativity within the queer and trans non-profit sector, and consequently dictates worthiness along the lines of race and gender within the LGBTQ+ community.

The Puerto Rican Summer of 2019 saw the ousting of a governor for the first time in the archipelago’s history. This revolt, as a kairotic event – from the Greek καιρός (kairos), which denotes a decisive or opportune moment – in which the Euromodern notion of progressive and linear time was disrupted, was led primarily by decolonial and black feminist organizations.

The protests in Chile have revealed multiple grievances and a call for “dignity” which has allowed to unify diverse social groups and their concerns against the hegemonic capitalist system.

In this Society and Space forum on Anti-Asian violence, we gather the perspectives of Asian-American scholars and organizers who contextualize the Atlanta mass shootings within the long histories of US immigration policy, US empire, the policing of sex work, and more.

We return to this region at the end of July 2018. As we feared, in the past few months the situation has become significantly worse for the refugees, with apparently up to 5000 people accommodated in makeshift camps and squatted buildings between Velika Kladuša and Bihać.

Who constitutes the great racialized Puerto Rican family? What political role did Black women play in the protests of Summer 2019? How has Black feminism (re) emerged in Puerto Rico, from musical performances – bomba, plena, rumba and reggaeton – and platforms such as the NEGRAS radio program? What is the importance of the intersections of race and gender in the analysis of what happened in Summer 2019? These are some of the questions I try to answer in the next section of this brief intervention.

In the evening of August 13th, 2016, the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin erupted into protest. Earlier that day, a Milwaukee police officer had shot and killed 23-year old neighborhood resident Sylville Smith, prompting hundreds of people to flood the streets of Milwaukee’s north side. For three days, protestors faced down police in riot gear and snipers situated atop nearby buildings.

Micol Seigel’s "Violence Work" makes an urgent contribution to our understanding of police work, its historical and continuing relationship to counter-insurgency, and the generative fictions that serve to obfuscate this relationship and to normalize its violence. The text should be required reading for activists, scholars, and really anyone else seeking to understand the contemporary moment and to address the state’s outsized and often exclusive investment in violence as the operational framework for addressing any number of social problems.