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“We Are Non-Political:” Gender, Intellectual Thought, and the Development of Non-Political Nationalism in Nigeria
African nationalism can be non-political. However, this unorthodox construction has gone unrecognized. It can only be seen through a consideration of women’s ideologies, activist agendas, and leadership in their own nationalist organizations. This presents a problem because women’s theorizing tends to be overlooked in the heavily male-centered narrative of nationalism and intellectual history in Africa. »
Maria Martin
History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
UC Merced

Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.

Sounding Graduate Student Work
Rosie Dwyer (Work & Refuge 2/7) explores the sonic dimensions of graduate student labor.

The University’s Two Bodies: Crip Labors of, and Beyond, Survival
Andrew David King (Work & Refuge 3/7) on the “crip labors” of disabled students and faculty.
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By Victoria Le, UCHRI Undergraduate Intern Writer and aspiring publisher Arielle Burgdorf said they feared their chances of working in publishing would be slim, and found the conversations surrounding the job market to be “depressing.” So Burgdorf, a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, turned to the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing »

UCHRI Welcomes Brittany Turner, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a second-year PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine with interests in global anti-colonial cinemas, Black visual cultures and counter-publics, and community-based creative labor. My research traces a genealogy of militant, participatory filmmaking practice to consider the aims and anti-colonial and postcolonial preoccupations of contemporary filmmakers in the Global South. »

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By Munyao Kilolo, UCHRI Graduate Student Researcher, and Marianna Davison, WUICAN Postdoctoral Scholar “What does it taste like? What is the viscosity? How does it smell?” Alejandra Cano, an agroecologist and Native American Studies PhD candidate at UC Davis, asked participants in UCHRI’s Climate Action Summer Institute to sample honey from different species of bee. »