Submit a pitch: “Reimagining Campus Activism”

Campus activism has long shaped possibilities within higher education, and therefore histories of inclusion and exclusion. Yet the conditions we confront, the legacies we inherit, and the stories we share about the depth and breadth of activism on college campuses today are often incomplete. Most often, campus activism is in response to events or specific points of rupture that compel us to action. But for many of us, those points of rupture are compounded, interconnected with historical and contemporary inequities that are both multifaceted and unresolved. This can make organizing campus activism feels as if it is a process of beginning again and again, of revolving instead of evolving. What if the next evolution of campus activism begins with us rethinking what we think we know, listening to voices we have not heard, and centering those who have been displaced to the margins? We invite you, therefore, to reconsider, reimagine, and perhaps reclaim whose knowledge informs campus activism, whose actions are celebrated and made visible, and what forms of transformation campus activism makes possible.