What a time to be studying fascism and antifascism. What a time to be doing any sort of social justice work. What a time to be in higher education.
I had a paper published this Spring – Early intervention against male supremacist influences among college students: “It’s really not a program that exists” in the journal Violence Against Women.
I wrote this article with my fierce students/alumni – doctoral candidate Anne Dufault, Dr. Sarah Burnham, Dr. Alexandria Onuoha – and our long-time colleagues Wagatwe Wanjuki and Duane de Four. This paper shares our antifascist analysis of what college sexual violence prevention professionals said they might do in response to male supremacist influences among college students. We show there’s a lot more institutions need to be doing than they are doing currently – and there’s much more we can do through antifascist community organizing that can’t be done by institutions themselves.
Of course, you likely knew that already. You’re living it every day. But here it is in paper form.
The threats we face come from much more than the ideological recruitment of college students. We face fascist violence from government actors, dangers as universities capitulate to fascist pressures, and the embodied threat of chronic stress from shaky social systems and uncertainty about our personal and professional futures. And more.
We will keep building power against fascism. We will keep doing what we can to protect each other. And we will keep growing movements for collective liberation – dreaming far beyond the world as we know it, creating liberatory experiences of the world as we want it to be.
