Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy Co-authors OpEd on the ongoing gentrification and housing struggle in Uptown. The article is based on their work done with the “Stop Luxury Developments @Weiss Hospital Campaign.” This…
Here is a piece that Nadine Naber wrote on the Chicago Reporter in response to 9/11. It also also references the forthcoming UIC IRRPP’s Arab American Chicagoland Report of which Nadine serves as…
GLAS is pleased to announce the release of the Community Forces podcast featuring UIC student interns working with different local Asian American community organizations. We also hear from the organizational leaders and community…
Nadine Naber wrote OpEDs in the Chicago Reporter. One of the OpEds provides a much needed feminist lens for understanding what is transpiring in Afghanistan as a problem of the US empire .…
On July 7, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed HB 0376 — the Teaching Equitable Asian American History Act (TEAACH Act) into law, making Illinois the first state in the nation to mandate the…
While movements like “Stop Asian Hate” can galvanize much-needed attention to the racialized violence Asian American communities face, we must recognize the ways that this victimhood is often twinned in the U.S. imagination…
A Block Club Chicago article about a plan to build an apartment building on a Weiss Hospital parking lot and Uptown community opposition to the project cites the UIC-based project “Dis/Placements: A People’s…
Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy was featured in WBEZ/NPR Chicago’s Reset hosted by Sasha-Ann Simons to discuss the Dis/Placements project. The UIC professors behind the “Dis/Placements” project say that the fight against urban removal…
Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy were featured on Fox 32 Good Day Chicago with the segment titled “UIC professors fight displacement in Uptown” to discuss the Dis/Placements Project. See the video here: https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/953450…
For centuries, Black and Indigenous writers have established loud and clear the great paradox of the Fourth of July: the U.S.’ purported democracy was founded on slavery and genocide. We must also remember…
