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Making Our Way Out

Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara;

2024 Radical History Review

The massive and multiscaled scope of state violence—religious and racist genocide, medical apartheid, colonial dispossession, global austerity, and capitalist resource extraction that accelerates our climate catastrophe—indexes the immense potential of state infrastructures. Global systems that...

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The AIDS Quilt in PrisonCare Work in and against the Carceral State

Hobson, Emily K.; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846780

This article examines AIDS activism in women’s prisons in the 1980s and 1990s United States through a focus on incarcerated women’s creation and display of panels for the AIDS Quilt. It argues that AIDS Quilt panels made in prison reflected the potential of incarcerated activists to use creative...

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Searching for Monse

Jiménez, Mónica A.; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846794

This article focuses on the political life and imprisonment of the author’s great-aunt, Monserrate del Valle del Toro, a Puerto Rican nationalist and onetime political prisoner. Monserrate was arrested in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on October 30, 1950, for participating in an attempt to overthrow the...

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Feminist Educators against State Neglect

Corinealdi, Kaysha; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846808

By the mid-twentieth century a core group of feminist educators in Panama had cemented their reputations as community organizers invested in the empowerment of poor and working-class women. Yet this was a state that rejected calls for female suffrage, labeled attempts at worker organizing as...

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From “Armies of Love” to Demanding Legal AbortionPiqueteras and Women Workers at the Forefront of Forging New Feminist Politics in Argentina (1990–2005)

Rioja, Romina A. Green; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846822

This article argues that Argentina’s recent feminist “green wave” emerged from the political militancy of working-class women responding to the economic violence of the 1990s neoliberal reforms and the nation’s financial collapse in 2001. The first section details the gendered experience of the...

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“To Repulse the State from Our Uteri”Anarcha-feminism, Reproductive Freedom, and Dual Power

Beswick, Spencer; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846837

This article analyzes how anarcha-feminists in the United States critiqued the state and attempted to build feminist dual power in response to the New Right’s attacks on reproductive freedom. Anarcha-feminists in the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (1989–98) argued that...

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Taking Over, Living-InBlack Feminist Geometry and the Radical Politics of Repair

Gill-Sadler, Randi; Edwards, Erica R.; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846851

This article places Toni Cade Bambara at the center of a history of Black feminist culture and its radical politics of repair through a close reading of Bambara’s and Louis Massiah’s film treatment Come as You Are. In its depiction of a group of poor, unhoused Philadelphians taking over a luxury...

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“If You’re Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous”Sex Worker Community Defense

Berg, Heather; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846865

Refusing both sex workers’ state-produced vulnerability to violence and the state’s monopoly on protection, sex worker radicals articulate community defense as a practice of care. Grounded in interviews with thinkers of the sex worker Left and in sex workers’ cultural production, this article...

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Organizing for the Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Thusi, India; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846879

Sex worker organizations in South Africa have engaged in significant advocacy to eliminate the current laws that criminalize the sale of sexual services there. Advocates argue that criminalization stigmatizes sex workers by labeling their conduct as unlawful, pushing them further to the margins...

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Embodying RevolutionSituating Iran within Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Moradian, Manijeh; Fischer, Anne Gray; Matthiesen, Sara; LeBrón, Marisol

2024 Radical History Review

doi:10.1215/01636545-10846893

This essay considers the 2022–23 feminist uprising in Iran through a transnational feminist lens, as part of a global revolt against patriarchal, homophobic, and transphobic state violence. After first placing the Women, Life, Freedom movement in the context of modern Iranian history, the essay...

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