Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition features 50 years of transnational feminist collections held at the Schlesinger Library. Through a rich array of materials including posters, newspapers, photographs, and memorabilia Solidarity! explores the promises and limits of global feminist solidarity from the 1970s until the present.
Monday, Oct. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.
Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White that appeared in
Life magazine above the headline “The Flood Leaves its Victims on the Bread Line,” February 15, 1937. Photo: Getty Images.
Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community, by Peer Illner. London: Pluto Press, 2020. 208 pages.
Mutual Aid:
Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), by Dean Spade. New York and London: Verso, 2020. 128 pages.
IN ONE OF photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White’s most iconic Depression-era images, a seamless, whitewashed vision of the good life is undercut by a segregated breadline. Tightly composed, the picture almost stages a return of the repressed, as material casualties of “the American Way” buttress but also contravene the billboard’s sanguine promise. Bourke-White’s irony is acerbic, condensed, and at the same time capacious; as art historian John Tagg points out, the absurdity of the background graphic’s “cynical corporat