CURATED SPACES “We Came Together and We Fought” Kipp Dawson and Resistance to State Violence in US Social Movements since the 1950s Jessie B. Ramey and Catherine A. Evans For over sixty years Kipp Dawson has built coalitions on the front lines of major social movements confronting state-sponsored violence. Dawson’ s collaborative leadership in the Vietnam antiwar campaign and movements for civil rights, wom- en’ s rights, gay liberation, labor, and education justice challenged forms of active harm and death (fig. 1). Operating alongside others, she resisted powerful systems of discrimination, staggering divestment, and purposeful neglect. Her astonishing career—and marginalized identities as a lesbian, Jewish, working-class woman from a multiracial family—demonstrates the radical power of ordinary people engaged in collective, transformative action. In this visual essay, we share material from two new archival collections our team helped curate: the Kipp Dawson Papers, housed at the University of Pitts- burgh, and over thirty interviews with Dawson, now part of the Women Miners Oral History Project at West Virginia University. These materials span the remark- able breadth and depth of Dawson’ s intersectional feminist activism and suggest rethinking leadership as a concept to fully appreciate the scope, interconnected- ness, and efficacy of resistance to state violence. Rather than view her work through a traditional, patriarchal leadership lens—locating a solo leader at the top of a power hierarchy—we approach Dawson’ s lifetime of work through a framework of “radical collaboration. ” Women have often performed the invisible labor of this intentional, Radical History Review Issue 148 (January 2024) DOI 10.1215/01636545-10846922 © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 181 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article-pdf/2024/148/181/2047523/181ramey.pdf?guestAccessKey=d4f6d036-6d50-4e5a-a27e-daf6659afbc6 by guest on 04 February 2024