In the wake of accusations of mass rape and sexual torture of Israeli women by Hamas and the ongoing sexual violence in the conflict of Eastern DRC it is crucial to foreground the erasures that stem from the category of conflict-related SV and the rape-as-weapon-of-war framework.

An essential piece from 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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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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Today on the The Abusable Past, K.A. Fuller writes on misinformation and the devastating impact of residential school denialism in Canada.

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Thrilled that my article, 'We Came Together and We Fought,' with Jessie Ramey is out in Radical History Review. Focused on my favorite human, Kipp Dawson, it details Dawson’s incredible lifetime of resistance and overviews her rich archive. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/radical-histor…

Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers Pitt Libraries. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time.

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Really good from A.J. Bauer: How the right saps liberals' will to stand up to them.
Also in here: the coinage we needed, better than 'new McCarthyism' -- its 'the Palestine Scare.' abusablepast.org/the-myth-of-th…

This morning we are excited to bring you a new Doing Radical History feature from Chris Aino Pihlak! Chris tells us both a personal story and offers ideas about what social history can offer to trans studies.

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omg lol thank you for this and for an incredibly brilliant abusablepast essay on the sycophancy of poco studies, fawning for the approval of zionists, Esmat Elhalaby - you a real one indeed

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Great piece by Esmat Elhalaby

A Dying Postcolonialism radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/a…

A Dying Postcolonialism radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/a…

Please read this essay I wrote on 'postcolonial' Zionism, as it were.

Must-read review carefully dismantling an edited volume seeking to revive Zionism in the context of postcolonial studies as an anti-colonial ideology

Postcolonialism has many problems. Esmat (Esmat Elhalaby) systemically shows us how its proponents work to (shoddily) bolster Zionism at the expense of Palestinians via this devastating review in the fantastic abusablepast radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/a…

“Transfiguring Zionism into anti-colonialism and Israel into a postcolonial entity, is not only an abuse of history and language, but an attack on Palestinians.” Esmat Elhalaby on “A Dying Postcolonialism” in abusablepast

a brilliant piece, looking at the ways that demands for 'ambiguity' on the brutal occupation of palestine is in fact a demand for ignorance & erasure.