This paper examines the intersection of environmental injustice and reproductive violence, extending its scope to include nonhuman animals, through the literary analysis of Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats (1998) and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood (2005). Both works are well-researched novels of fact and reveal the biopolitical commodification of minoritized human and nonhuman bodies under neoliberalism. By highlighting the hidden realities of reproductive and environmental violence, these narratives expose systemic intersections of racism, sexism, and speciesism. The analysis demonstrates how reproductive violence serves as both a consequence and a strategy of neoliberalism and biopolitics, perpetuating power structures and brutal violence. By integrating nonhuman animals into the discourse on environmental and reproductive justice, this paper advocates for a more inclusive and holistic approach to understanding and addressing intersecting systems of oppression.

Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior is a comprehensive and insightful collection of essays that examines the complex and often contentious history of how the U.S. military has grappled with issues of sex, sexuality, and gender identity over the past centuries. Derived from a 2018 symposium conducted at the University of Kansas, this volume offers a nuanced and well-researched analysis of the military’s evolving approach to regulating and policing the sexual live...

After decades of limited action on gun control policies particularly on the federal level, the gun violence prevention movement in the United States has largely failed to reach the goals it had set out for itself. This article examines what has come after that failure. Using in-depth interviews I conducted with gun violence prevention organizers across the country during a nine-month period of fieldwork between 2021 and 2022, I explore the strategies and goals of activists and ask how experiences of success and failure have changed them. I argue that activists have found, after failure, new strategies, creative approaches, and more comprehensive and ambitious solutions to gun violence. Moreover, through repertoires of strategies focused on community building and everyday acts of resistance, gun violence prevention activists have found renewed meaning in their work.

This article presents the first extended critical engagement with the work of the contemporary American poet Timothy Donnelly. It suggests that central to Donnelly’s practice is his crafting of a style of double lyric to explore the simultaneous forming and fragmentation of the modern American public sphere across the reciprocating realms of politics, economics, culture and information technology. In examining this double writing the article also considers Donnelly’s cultivation of a poetics of the “many” or multitude to imagine a democratic alternative to the political economy of late neoliberalism and neoliberal imperialism.

Although Indigenous and postcolonial studies are often treated as distinct fields, this article argues for their interconnection through a focus on relational ways of being. By juxtaposing contemporary Indigenous North American and postcolonial Ghanaian novels, this essay explores the concept of relationality as a form of Indigenous resurgence. With Nanabush’s teaching of relationality as a framework, the study examines how characters in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000), Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper (2021), and Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers (1979) navigate and sustain reciprocal relationships with human and non-human kin. The article’s primary contribution is a cross-cultural comparative method called reading resurgence that highlights shared commitments to decolonial futures. By reading resurgence, this work illuminates some of the ways in which Indigenous and postcolonial literatures reject colonial separations and insist on interconnected, place-based ways of knowing. Illuminating what can only be seen in the context of relationships, these novels tell a wider story about the urgent importance of sharing place-based knowledges inter- and intragenerationally to strengthen reciprocal connections between humans and the land. Ultimately, this study affirms the value of cross-cultural literary analysis in understanding how Indigenous and postcolonial narratives contribute to broader global decolonial movements.

Biographers have portrayed Kenneth Fearing as a cynical, reclusive writer defined by political ambiguity and personal struggles. This article challenges that narrative, emphasizing a vibrant social network as the driving force behind his literary identity. Rather than a committed ideologue, Fearing was a well-liked figure whose friendship was sought after by a wide range of individuals. Connections to leftist literary social circles opened doors for publication, yet creative expression remained the central focus more than political engagement. This study presents a more nuanced, dynamic image by reconstructing his social capital network. Far from an isolated pessimist, Fearing was an engaged, connected writer embedded in New York’s modernist scene.