Public Offering: Archive of Resistance & Subversion (POARS)

Join us. We need you. Testify. Bear witness. Contribute to the archive.

To educators and librarians and communities across the United States – have you been asked to (for example):

“Scrub” your website of “DEI” language?
Change your curriculum in your classroom?
Not teach certain topics in your classroom?
Not teach certain books in your classroom?
Not say “Black” or “gay” or “undocumented” in your classroom?
Take down (or not put up) certain signs in your school?
Is ICE present outside your school?
Are people gender-policing your bathrooms at school?

We love us. We got us. We keep us safe. We dare to be powerful. We move fearlessly beyond fear. We move toward repair in our communities and ourselves even as hateful forces try to tear us apart.

Duncan Cumming (CC) 2013. "The pen is mightier than the sword!" Graffiti.

We invite you to submit anonymous or named “witnessing stories” and “acts of resistance/subversion stories.” Contribute stories, screenshots, letters, audio, video, collage, documents, artifacts, policies.

Submit to the POARS (pronounced pow-ers) archive at the following link:

https://tinyurl.com/contributePOARS

You can also submit any attachments via email: anti-obedient-archive @ proton.me This email is monitored exclusively by the faculty on this project.

We will analyze and create themes every two months or so. We will build and grow together. We are stronger than the forces that are attempting to silence us.

As Mariame Kaba reminds us: hope is a discipline.

As Audre Lorde reminds us: “when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.”