June 5-12 2016 | Maddy Macnab at the Oral History Summer School

Aging Activisms researcher Maddy Macnab attended the 2016 Oral History Summer School in Chicago. Read her reflections here.

The Meaning behind my Creative Piece “We all can be Activists”

My Creative Song is a form of resistance against systems of oppression in society that perpetuates Racism, Colonialism, and Sexism. I...

Poison

My breasts hold the poison of colonial and patriarchal development. My breasts hold lead from paint in the house I grew up in. My breasts...

Coexisting

she stands here to fight To fight for her people To fight for the voiceless To fight for those who have been silenced she fights for the...

Becoming an Activist

I was not sure what I was expecting when I joined this course, all that I knew was that I did not consider myself an activist because I...

A Second Look

The Activists and Activisms course has allowed me to see that there are many different forms of activism. The course material gave me a...

AI Beck blog post

Image: Tattoo art by Vegas. Hi readers! My name is Alexandria Beck, I am a straight cis-white woman from a low income household. As I...

Reproductive justice

Reproductive justice has always been an important social justice issue to me. This piece depicts an abstract line art of a fetus and...

Eyes

They say that the eyes are a window into the soul. But my eyes are as dark as an endless abyss, so what does that say about what lies...

Rachel Crouse's blog post

Hello! My name is Rachel Crouse, and I have been tuning into this course from Dundas, Ontario, which has been built on the traditional...

Robin Brownlee's blog post

Image retrieved from rappler.com The dominant ideas of what activism should look like are defined by images of angry protestors,...