How can commemorating our activist past help to build new hope for political change? Looking back to 1969, when she received news of the Stonewall riots and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, Jewelle Gomez explores the significance of these vitally interlinked events that shaped her personal and political identity.
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We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
The Heritage Justification: Public Monuments and Uses of History in Charlottesville and Oxford
As statues spark controversy, Laura Leonard critically examines how white supremacists in Charlottesville, as well as critics of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign, have invoked heritage as a legitimising language.