Distributaries

This summer, I watched school workers teach each other how to fight. At an annual gathering of dozens of rank-and-file educator-organizers, one group met to discuss lessons from teacher strikes. After being asked about the consequences of going on an illegal strike in Massachusetts—a fine of tens of thousands of dollars—the Massachusetts teacher shrugged and...

My research examines Iraq under British occupation and the subsequent Mandate, spanning the First World War and its aftermath. Given this focus, most of the archival material I require is understandably held in the United Kingdom and in Iraq itself. I became interested, however, in the holdings of other colonial metropoles such as those of...

Since my undergraduate days, I have been fascinated by the depiction of gender non-confirming bodies in pre-modern South Asian art, and to develop methodologies for reading them. This broadly forms the core of my doctoral dissertation project, and the support provided by the ERI/PS2 fellowship was crucial to take further steps toward mapping the little-known...

This summer marked a year since the beginning of the mass ICE raids in Los Angeles. While they continue in new forms across the outskirts of the city, the poorest and densest neighborhoods—where I organized and conducted research alongside the LA Tenants Union (LATU)—have seen a major decrease in the violent migrant kidnappings that notoriously...

Many of us have had some interaction with the healthcare system in the U.S., andtherefore it’s probably safe to assume we have all in one way or another seen thedangerous gaps and disparities that lie within it. Working in a pre-clinical academiclaboratory has situated me uniquely to see and address some of these gaps. The...

In 1993, the satellite Znamya attempted to reflect sunlight onto Arctic cities during the polar night, aiming to extend working hours and “conquer” darkness. The Negotiating Darkness Artistic Research Network critically challenges a long legacy of treating darkness as unproductive, dangerous, or negative. In the Nordic region, seasonal extremes of polar day and night shape...