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Economic Well-Being in Today's Political Climate
May 24 2025
Author Pat McCoy on risk sharing and the path to achieving economic well-being for all.
What LA’s Antelope Valley Teaches Us about Fighting for Just Cities
May 13 2025
Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.
Is There Value in Discussing Environmental Justice at a Global Scale?
May 12 2025
Examining the case of Colombia, author Alexander Huezo, discusses the challenges and opportunities of applying a global environmental justice framework outside the U.S. communities where it began.
A Conversation with Nina Peterson and Katherine Guinness, guest editors of “Aesthetics of Perplexity,” a Special Issue of Afterimage
Apr 24 2025
Afterimage's new special issue, "Aesthetics of Perplexity," is interested in examining perplexity as an aesthetic category, in which the experience of confusion or bewilderment can be harnessed as an artistic tactic.
Creating Communities of Care Amidst Deportation
Apr 11 2025
Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Author Jennifer Huynh explains how Vietnamese communities are building systems of mutual aid to support each other through ongoing removal by the US government.
Imagining Just and Equitable Workplaces
Apr 04 2025
Author Oneya Fennell Okuwobi on where diversity programs fail and how to imagine changes in our workplaces that center employees.
Making Chemistry Palatable to Students Through Cooking
Apr 02 2025
Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.
Q&A with Julia Alekseyeva, author of "Antifascism and the Avant-Garde"
Mar 31 2025
Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.
The Multiplying Pathways of the Feminist Incomplete
Mar 31 2025
The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.
Q&A with Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia"
Mar 30 2025
Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.