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Rosie Gillies

Rosie Gillies was engagement editor and digital director at Boston Review from 2018 until June 2023.

Articles

What we have achieved this year—and our plans for 2023. 

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From critical race theory to COVID-19 vaccines, here's what you loved the most.
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Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
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The Combahee River Collective Statement
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Fred Hampton — “Power Anywhere There’s People”
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Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’”
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Jesse Gray — “The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power”
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Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”

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Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Reading Lists

An anti-imperialism reading list for July 4th.
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.
We don't need to hear a pilot’s perspective.
New translations of Wittgenstein, Bachmann, and more in today's reading list.
New writing on sex in today's reading list.
From Hollywood hits to cult classics.
—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.
–and other questions, as the controversial case is set to go before the Supreme Court.
A reading list featuring historians on the American Revolution.
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.
A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.

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