This Counter Narrate homepage was launched in Winter 2025 alongside the publication of the February 2025 essay “Resist Anticipatory Obedience” by CUNY faculty members Michelle Fine and Elizabeth Bishop. We have continued dialogues since then, hyperlinked below. We have a series of important dialogues lined up in the months ahead with scholars, organizers and community committed to sustaining our humanity in “revolting times” (Fine, 2016).

In February 2025, we also launched an archive entitled “Public Offering: Archive of Resistance and Subversion (POARS).” We have moved slowly in collecting artifacts from our wider community. Visit the archive page below to learn more about that effort. We take the protection of individual identities extremely seriously in the context of publishing in 2026 in the U.S. and internationally.

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DIALOGUE 1 to read Part 1: “Resist Anticipatory Obedience” (2025): A Love Letter to Educators and Youth Workers

DIALOGUE 2 to read Part 2: “The Need to Resist and Build” (2025): Aftershocks in the First 100 Days

DIALOGUE 3 to read Part 3: “Joy of Resistance and Solidarity” (2026) on Academic Freedom, Labor Solidarity and the CUNY #FiredFour

DIALOGUE 4 to read “Part 4: Dialogue like Oxygen” (2026) with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Other dialogues will follow. Reach out if you want to talk. Contact at archive below. 

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Click into the POARS ARCHIVE to see the call for collected materials. Submit artifacts. Keep witness.

This living archive remains in curated construction. Submissions are open via email and CryptPad if you follow the link above.

A more systematic unveiling of the archive will follow in the weeks ahead. We move at the speed of trust. Check this space: May Day 2026.