Megan Douglass
Megan Douglass
Drawing New Maps to the Future
Parallels exist between the movement of bodies globally in the search for freedom and belonging, and the migratory nature of Black life within the borders of the U.S.
a review of
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson, Saidiya Hartman (Foreword), Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Afterword). AK Press 2021
As a Black diasporic female academic and activist, it isn’t so easy to encounter the intersectionality of the struggles I encounter reflected in many academic or anarchist discussions.
May 15, 2022 Read the whole text...
Megan Douglass
How Burn, Baby, Burn Became Hurt, Baby, Hurt
a review of
Hurt, Baby, Hurt by William Walter Scott III. University of Michigan Press, 2025
First self-published in 1970, Hurt, Baby, Hurt is a fast-paced and brief yet intimate look into the life of William Walter Scott III, the man credited with inciting the so-called Detroit riots of July 1967. Known to city residents as The Rebellion, the five days of fires and police and National Guard repression resulted in 43 deaths, 1,200 injuries, over 7,000 arrests, and hundreds of buildings and homes destroyed.
Nov 14, 2025 Read the whole text...