5LL #185 - Reparations, Animals, Disinformation, Universities, Class

The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Boston Review

Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.

Our Animals, Ourselves
Astra Taylor and Sunaura Taylor, Lux

The socialist feminist case for animal liberation.

(dis)Info Studies: André Brock, Jr. on Why People Do What They Do on the Internet
J. Khadijah Abdurahman and André Brock, Jr., Logic

J. Khadijah Abdurahman sat down with Brock to trace the history of disinformation from Reconstruction to the present, and to discuss “the unholy trinity of whiteness, modernity, and capitalism.”

Notes on Contemporary University Struggles
Eli B. Lichtenstein, Viewpoint

In our inquiries, we encouraged reflection not just on struggles within universities, but also, on the university as its own conceptual object, as its own political aim and stake in such struggles.

How Does Class Work in the U.S.? It’s Complicated
John Patrick Leary, Teen Vogue 

This op-ed argues that understanding “class” in the U.S. requires dismantling persistent fantasies about how our society functions.

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