“One need not look outside the United States for models of oppression and resistance. Instead, strategies for surviving fascist conditions have been developed and refined by Black people for centuries on this very land. The abolitionist Martin R. Delany knew something about emigration as a means for survival. “
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $4,000. This internship is open to undergraduate students enrolled at McNeil Center Consortium institutions. Interns are expected to work 35 hours per week for 8 weeks. Beginning and end dates will be arranged between the Insurrect! and the intern, but the internship will conclude by September 1, 2026. One half of the stipend will be paid at the beginning of the internship, and the other half will be remitted at its completion.
“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented workers and migrants that the government refuses to protect and instead actively targets.”
“One need not look outside the United States for models of oppression and resistance. Instead, strategies for surviving fascist conditions have been developed and refined by Black people for centuries on this very land. The abolitionist Martin R. Delany knew something about emigration as a means for survival. “
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $4,000. This internship is open to undergraduate students enrolled at McNeil Center Consortium institutions. Interns are expected to work 35 hours per week for 8 weeks. Beginning and end dates will be arranged between the Insurrect! and the intern, but the internship will conclude by September 1, 2026. One half of the stipend will be paid at the beginning of the internship, and the other half will be remitted at its completion.
“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented workers and migrants that the government refuses to protect and instead actively targets.”
“In providing a compelling microhistorical lens into the intersections of enslavement, marriage, Christianity, and women’s subjectivity, the Mary-Hylas case exemplifies the layered experiences of Black women in the Americas in the eighteenth century.”
“A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.”
