This week I had the opportunity to speak on the panel at McGill University ‘Future of Feminist Theory: Publishing, Networks and Conferences, Or, how to be the feminist you want…
Video Now Available: Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement
You can now watch Protest Camp Collective’s Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy discuss the impacts of the Occupy movement, followed by a keynote address from award-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
Beware of False Friends: Reflections on TIME’s praise of ‘The Protester’
Last week Time Magazine announced The Protester as its person of the year. Celebrating individuals fighting for equality and democracy around the world, this year’s most important person followed in…
Protest Camps Hosts Roundtable to Announce its contract with Zed Books
Before the Arab Spring, our work on the transnational history of protest camping was generally regarded as “too niche”, or “quirky activist stuff for idealists”. But by April 2011, as…
How to Draw Capitalism? Iconography and the Occupy Movement
Last Wednesday the Creative Resistance Research Network hosted the first ‘How to Draw Capitalism‘ workshop at Occupy Finsbury Square. Sat in a circle as the sky drew dark and air…
Occupy LSX Day Six: Excerpt from a Social Media ‘Scrapbook’
Day Six at Occupy LSX Brought students from my uni. They were full of questions, the kinds of questions that make you smile and stumble, rambling over words. Where there…
Place-based Protest: A Theory-Slam on Occupy Wall St
This protest is place-based yet does not seek to claim place as property. It enacts a ‘reclamation of space’ yet not in the form of confrontation or taking back. It…