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Vol. 132 (2025)
Published October 7, 2025
Radical Inspiration in Dark Times

Issue 132 gathers essays, poetry, and reviews that reflect on education, resistance, and creativity amid the authoritarianism, environmental deregulation, and social unraveling of the current Trump administration. The issue highlights how educators and artists are using radical pedagogy, feminist and Afrofuturist theory, and collaborative learning to confront systemic injustice and inspire collective action within and beyond the classroom.

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Call for Materials: Radical Teacher at 50

The Radical Teacher editorial board is collecting materials, stories, and suggestions to help document the journal’s history, community, and political legacy.

We welcome photos, letters, flyers, meeting notes, essays, teaching materials, recordings, artwork, personal recollections, and ideas for people or archives to include.


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April 28, 2026

Call for Materials: Radical Teacher at 50

The Radical Teacher editorial board is collecting materials, stories, and suggestions to help document the journal’s history, community, and political legacy.

We welcome photos, letters, flyers, meeting notes, essays, teaching materials, recordings, artwork, personal recollections, and ideas for people or archives to include.


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April 28, 2026

NOTICE:    Pause in acceptance of submissions.


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March 10, 2026

Call for Papers: Dispatches from the First Day of School

Submissions are due September 15th, 2025.


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July 21, 2025

Call for Teaching Notes for Radical Teacher

Is there a book, film, essay, poem, or story that you've found particularly useful in the classroom and want to share with other Radical Teacher readers? Or has something challenging, encouraging, or frustrating happened in class?  If you think our readers can learn from your experience, we’d like to hear about it.


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