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Resistant Communiqués Podcast is a decolonial multidisciplinary knowledge hub and a digital repository of People's History and resistance in the wake of political attacks on education.

06/29/2026

On the new Resistant Communiqués:  Dr. Karma R. Chávez, Professor and President of the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin, co-founder of UT Austin Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and the co-editor of The Higher Ed Advocate, discusses the beltway LGBT movements’ mainstream assimilationist politics, and the radical politics of q***rness through the lens of Against Equality.

In the 1990s, LGBT politics became mainstream and decidedly centrist, in a way fundamentally different from q***r politics. What are the actual politics of q***rness? It’s an ability to look past the limitations of gender and sexuality, even as it relates to straight, cisgendered people. It changes your understanding of what equality really means: Is participation in the military industrial complex actually a good thing? Is marriage, with all of its connections to property and patriarchy, a good thing? Is expanding the prison industrial complex through hate crimes legislation, which disproportionately targets q***r, trans, and Black, Indigenous, and racially minoritized, people a good thing? These are the questions to ask as we leave Pride.

Listen to Karma Chávez’s Resistant Communiqués episode here: https://bit.ly/rc2026karmachavez

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The Resistant Communiqués Collective is extremely privileged to present Season II, Episode IV, with Dr. Karma R. Chávez,...
06/28/2026

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is extremely privileged to present Season II, Episode IV, with Dr. Karma R. Chávez, Professor and President of the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin, co-founder of UT Austin Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and the co-editor of The Higher Ed Advocate.

In 2026, Pride has been hollowed out, and gender and ethnic studies are under concerted and coordinated attack, as nonprofits and universities work to turn radical q***r struggle into something safe, manageable, and profitable.

In this June Pride episode, Professor Karma R Chávez, chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin and president of the AAUP chapter, traces how radical q***r politics, Black, Indigenous, and racially minoritized organizing, AIDS activism, and student demands for Black Studies gave rise to gender and ethnic studies, and how those same formations are now being dismantled. Moving from Palestine to South Africa, and from campus struggles in the United States, Karma connects today’s assaults on education and Pride to longer histories of repression and insists on transnational solidarity, rigorous study, and collective joy as the conditions for a culture of resistance that can last.

Karma R. Chávez is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is the author of Q***r Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021). Chávez is a co-founder of her university’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and president of the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin.

Listen to Karma Chávez’s Resistant Communiqués episode and review the full multimedia syllabus on Substack and Apple Podcasts links below in the comments.

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06/28/2026

On the latest Resistant Communiqués Podcast, teacher and writer Alana Lentin, author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto Press, 2025) and member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, discusses the reality of fascism and the experiences of racially minoritized peoples under conditions of colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist exploitation.

As Alana explains, labeling fascism as an “exceptional” historical experience is a way of diluting critiques of the United States and other countries that are founded on racialized hierarchies. Once we abandon this idea of fascism as a highly specific experience, we can start to see more clearly how seemingly liberal countries are themselves complicit.

Listen to our interview with Alana Lentin at the link in the comments.

06/24/2026

Palestinian Marxist historian Ḥannā Baṭāṭu, who emigrated to the U.S. as a young man in the wake of the Nakba, and who specialized in the history of Iraq and Syria, died June 24, 2000, in Winsted, Connecticut. He was 73 years old.

06/24/2026

On the latest Resistant Communiqués, teacher and writer Alana Lentin, author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025), discusses colonialism, settler colonialism, and the Imperial Boomerang.

What is the “imperial boomerang”? As Lentin discusses, the term was coined by Martiniquean scholar Aimé Césaire to describe how violence carried out in settler colonies finds its way back to Europe and North America.

In the wake of the Holocaust, it explained the history and consequences of European imperialism. However, it falls most heavily on the subjects of colonialism living there: they are still disproportionately victimized.

Listen to our interview with Alana Lentin at the link in our comments.

06/16/2026

Periods of intense criminalization and conservative backlash often target sexual minorities—and then that fact gets dropped from popular recollection.

06/13/2026

On the latest Resistant Communiqués, teacher and writer Alana Lentin, author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025) and member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, discusses zionist cooptation of Indigenity and the weaponization of language from progressive movements as a means to reclassify itself from what it truly is: a colonialist project.

zionism is a right-wing, nationalistic project, but it also relies on co-opting language and ideas from liberal and progressive projects, including Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, and appeals to Indigeneity. Ironically, they end up stealing talking points that Palestinians themselves use in their struggle for freedom. This explains why zionist actors in so-called North America and Australia have announced their support for Indigenous voices there: it is a way for them to try and solicit support for their own political project. Which paints zionism as an Indigenous rights movement instead of what it actually is, nothing more than a colonialist project.

Listen to Alana Lentin’s Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin

06/13/2026

And thanks to the contributors to our fascism dossier over the last three years: Todd Gordon , Jeffery R. Webber, DK Renton , Justin Reed, and Paul Ginsburg.

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06/05/2026

On the new Resistant Communiqués: teacher and writer Alana Lentin, author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025) and member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, discusses the critical relationship between the Black Panther Party and the Palestinian struggle.

As Alana discusses, with the rise of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s, the Black Panther Party’s solidarity with the Palestinian cause directly confronted zionist accounts and faced fierce pushback. Drawing on Huey P. Newton’s insistence that, as descendants of enslaved people in the United States, Black radicals must stand with oppressed peoples everywhere, specifically including Palestinians, and Malcolm X’s open and apt description of zionism as racism, Alana traces intertwined histories of resistance and the collusion between zionist organizations and U.S. authorities.

As Alana outlines in her People’s and Resistance Oral History, zionist organizations not only sought to label Palestinians as “terrorists,” but also to undermine Black radicals working in solidarity with Palestinians by feeding into their criminalization, incarceration, and ultimately, exile, under U.S. programs, such as COINTELPRO. This criminalization, endemic from the late 1960s onward, in many ways curtailed the radical horizons of the Black radical movement.

Alana Lentin’s Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode, “Alana Lentin on the Racial Regime: Race, Fascism, and the Limits of Liberal Anti-Racism,” invites us to return to those histories of Black–Palestinian solidarity, to remember how seriously they were targeted and criminalized, and to take their lessons learned for today’s struggles against colonialism, racial capitalism, and carceral violence.

Listen to the full discussion at the link in our bio: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode III, with teacher and writer Al...
05/31/2026

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode III, with teacher and writer Alana Lentin, and the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto, 2025).

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, there was a short-lived boom in highly visible corporate DEI. But as soon as it entered public awareness, it sparked a vicious backlash from conservatives, including Christopher Rufo. What was DEI “worth” in a real sense, and how did attacks on critical race theory prefigure the Trump Administration’s current behavior?

Our guest this month, Alana Lentin ( has studied this phenomenon and discusses a global perspective on racism, white supremacy, zionism, and the direction that settler-colonial states are headed in.
Teacher and writer, Alana Lentin, is a Jewish anti-Zionist European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racial capitalism, and antiracism and is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is the author of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (Pluto 2025) and Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020). Previously, she published The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley (Zed, 2011), Racism: A beginner’s guide (2008), and Racism and Antiracism in Europe (Pluto, 2004). She co-edits the Lexington Books ‘Challenging Migration Studies’ books series and the ‘Decolonization and Social Worlds’ series at Bristol University Press. She is a member of the Founding Collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (). Her academic and media articles, as well as videos, podcasts, and teaching materials, are free to be used and available at www.alanalentin.net.

Listen to Alana Lentin’s oral history and full discussion with the Resistant Communiqués Podcast at the link in our bio: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin

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