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Sovereignty Will Not Be Funded: “Good” Indigenous Citizenship in Hawai‘i’s Nonprofit-Industrial Complex

August 25, 2022December 7, 2015 by Maile Arvin

This essay investigates the role of the nonprofit-industrial complex in contemporary Native Hawaiian/Kanaka Maoli political movements. There is no simple way to characterize the many political directions Native Hawaiians move in today—some participate in the highest levels of the United States legislature, and others stake out their own claims to sovereignty, territory, and independence as … Read more

Are the Cops in our Heads and Hearts?

August 25, 2022December 1, 2015 by Paula X. Rojas

Reprinted with permission from The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). Like many other activists on the left, I have been struggling with the contradictions found in organizing work here in the United States. I have worked in community-based organizing, both within and … Read more

Social Service or Social Change?

August 25, 2022December 1, 2015 by Paul Kivel

Reprinted with permission from The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). Can we provide social service and work for social change, or do our efforts to provide human services maintain or even strengthen social inequality? I first began thinking about this issue when … Read more

Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure

August 25, 2022December 1, 2015 by Alisa Bierria

Reprinted with permission from The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). In the summer of 1999, Seattle Rape Relief (SRR), one of the first three rape crisis centers in the US, was closed by its board of directors. Founded in 1972 by women … Read more

The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

August 25, 2022November 24, 2015 by Dylan Rodríguez

Reprinted with permission from The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). Perhaps never before has the struggle to mount viable movements of radical social transformation in the United States been more desperate, urgent, or difficult. In the aftermath of the 1960s mass-movement era, … Read more

In the Shadow of the Shadow State

August 25, 2022November 23, 2015 by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Reprinted with permission from The Revolution Will Not be Funded (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Boston: South End Press, 2009). Organized philanthropy is playing a significant role in this age of tottering social standards, crumbling religious sanctions, perverse race attitudes, and selfish and ulterior motives.—Ira De A. Reid, 1944 Even in today’s … Read more

About this Issue

April 27, 2022June 11, 2015 by Tami Navarro

This double issue emerges out of the 2013 Worlds of Shange conference held at Barnard College and celebrates the important work and life of Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange (BC ’70). “The Worlds of Ntozake Shange” highlights Shange’s centrality to black feminism and the continuing impact of her work both within and outside the academy. In … Read more

Moving Across Disciplines and Genres: Teaching Shange

August 25, 2022June 11, 2015 by Kim F. Hall

“Moving Across Disciplines and Genres: Teaching Shange” features interviews with Monica L. Miller, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Kim F. Hall, Mariel Rodney, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Soyica Diggs Colbert.

Her Pen is a Machete: The Art of Ntozake Shange

August 25, 2022June 11, 2015 by Kim F. Hall

“Her Pen is a Machete” features interviews with Soyica Diggs Colbert, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Vanessa K. Valdés, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

A Conversation with Ntozake Shange and Dianne McIntyre

August 25, 2022June 11, 2015 by Paul Scolieri

Dance icon Dianne McIntyre’s choreography was amongst the primary influences on Shange’s development of the choreopoem. Shange writes of McIntyre’s dance, “No matter how the 20th century has denigrated the human body, the black people, the land, McIntyre’s choreography insists that living is arduous and remarkable” (“movement/ melody/ muscle/ meaning/ mcintyre”). In this conversation, these … Read more

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