Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $25).

Step 2: Register for “Tip of the Spear: A Reading Group” here.

Join Medievalists for Palestine for a reading group on Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt during their conference, Open Access Medieval Studies: Liberation, which will run counter to the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy.

We will discuss Burton’s approach to the archives, which he calls “archival war,” and think critically about the ethical obligations of medieval and historical research practices. We will also discuss how counterinsurgent strategies of the state are replicated in academia — including but not limited to medieval studies.

This will also be a space where participants can think together about what practices can effectively fight these regimes of repression.

Participants are encouraged to purchase Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear from the Workshops4Gaza bookstore, where all proceeds from books are donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Medievalists for Palestine (MfP) is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collective of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation. MfP supports the call for BDS and to end Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine. It rejects the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism and amplifies the work of groups struggling for and supporting Palestinian liberation.