A mural of the ancient mythical figure of Shahmaran in the women’s village of Jinwar.The Science of Woman, Life, Freedom: Jineolojî By Targol Mesbah Volume 26, no. 1, Gender: Beyond Binaries “Jineolojî is a river finding its own way.”1 The current women-led revolutionary uprising in Iran, known as the “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolution, was ignited by the killing of a young Kurdish woman named Jina Amini. In September 2022, Amini was visiting the capital city of Tehran from her home city of Saqqez, located in the Kurdistan province of Iran, when she was arrested by the morality police for not w ..read more

April 8, 2024 A Mirror of Our Immediate Future On Green Imperialism and Palestine By Erica Jung and Calvin Wu Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, an Israeli nuclear installation southeast of the city of Dimona. (Wikimedia Commons) The assassination of more than 14,000 Palestinian children in the span of mere months and the deliberate starvation of two million people by Zionist occupiers with the full support of western governments assault our preconceived notion of rationality. It is as if “civilization,” “democratic values,” and the “international rules-based order” are mere facades f ..read more

March 9, 2024 Akwesasne and the History of Hydropower By Marina Johnson-Zafiris  “[This] is not a story of triumphs of engineering over nature, nor is it a story of masterpiece on international diplomacy, nor even a story about change. It is rather a story about the intimate relationship that the Mohawks of Akwesasne had with the environment in which they lived from time immemorial and how change was forced upon them, through really no choice of their own. It is the story of how the forces of outside government and corporate America seemingly conspired to break the identity of the Mohaw ..read more

Matteo FarinellaThe Epistemological Politics of Gender: The Neurosexist’s Guide to Weaponized Incompetence By Lindsey T. Thurston and Hilary Thurston Volume 26, no. 1, Gender: Beyond Binaries The idea that there are gender/sex-related differences in human behavior has enjoyed broad cultural acceptance.1 As a result, it is common to assume that gender stereotypes reflect a natural and objective truth about human nature. Similarly, a subdiscipline of neuroscience, referred to here as differences neuroscience, works to identify metrics of the brain and behavior that differentiate men and women ..read more

Mariah-Rose MarieEugenics is Back: In a range of new flavors By Anne Rumberger and Marcy Darnovsky Volume 26, no. 1, Gender: Beyond Binaries Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. In fact, twentieth century eugenics represented the mainstream science of its day and was championed by prominent figures and popular movements across the political spectrum in countries around the world. Despite widespread post-war condemnation of Nazi eugenics and striki ..read more

Beyond Development and Extractivism New Paradigms for Health By Erika Arteaga, Todd Jailer, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, and Amulya Nidhi—People’s Health Movement Ecosystem and Health Working Group Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth Sophia Zhao Economic growth has become the dominant paradigm of social organization. This paradigm subordinates our well-being to the growth of production and consumption, of which the model regards as “progress,” while inequities and lack of access to life’s necessities are reduced to economic factors, i.e., Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index.1 In su ..read more

Sarah MamoPoetry by Ojo Taiye Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth OGONI ONE NAIRA SURVIVAL FUND Why do I keep talking about memories? Summer falls, and I peel open the scab I’ve chosen not to open until now. Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove, the water bodies and the creek. Along the grease-stained bank, a boy with a fishnet stands all day waiting. I know the problem of this poem— there was once a thriving swampland. Possibly nice. That perfect triangle of home familiar with light. Do I need to say there were waterways; a trader to my left and a farmer to my right. Canoes and boats and ..read more

Autumn 2022 Organizing Reports Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth You can find previous organizing reports here. Twin Cities Not a day goes by in the Twin Cities chapter where we aren’t thinking about how to stop the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline. This effort has been transformative and difficult to put into words, but what we can say for certain is that building trusting, lasting relationships was and continues to be the heart of this movement. These relationships were born from potlucks, coffee table conversations, celebrating birthdays, journal clubs, event organizing, and the friendship ..read more

Intake pipe for Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake, New York (Photo by Abi Buddington).Boom and Bust: The Fight over Bitcoin Mining in New York State By Owen Marshall Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth Seneca Lake’s picturesque setting belies its long history of conquest and extraction. Situated on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca Nation) of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, its shoreline has been occupied by European settlers since at least the late eighteenth century. By the late nineteenth century, the landscape was riddled with mineral mines and brine wells, fu ..read more

Alexandra LoboVehicles of Extraction By Paris Marx Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth After years of false starts, the electric vehicle (EV) finally seems to be picking up steam. Last year, the Biden administration announced ambitious targets to increase the adoption of EVs, along with funding for a number of measures aimed at making them more attractive to Americans. By 2030, the president wants half of all new vehicle sales to be electric. To encourage that, the government is providing financial incentives for drivers to buy them, installing new charging stations across the country, helping bu ..read more