Out now from Open Humanities Press!
The TRUMP administration “banned” a number of research terms. In CONTRADICTionary, each of these terms gets its own entry.
CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective intervention into the politics of language at a moment when words themselves are being policed, erased, and weaponized.
Emerging in response to the suppression of terms including diversity, intersectionality, and climate crisis, the project reclaims and expands this contested vocabulary through contributions from more than 100 scholars, artists, and activists from around the world.
Neither dictionary nor manifesto, CONTRADICTionary is a living archive of dissent. It treats contradiction not as a problem to be resolved, but as a method—and multiplicity as a source of strength. By turning targeted words into sites of analysis, imagination, and action, it pushes back against regimes of silence and asks us to reconsider the terms through which collective life is organized.
Available Open Access for free download, or in print for purchase: https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/contradictionary/
I added the entries on “activist/activism” and “privilege.”
