Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Volume 12, Number 2 (2025) pp. i-ii  Editor  s Note Trish Salah Year  s end. This issue arrives at the darkest time of the year. Universities have shut their doors for the holidays, students return home, workers take time off and families congregate. Or so goes the Dickensian bourgeois mythology. Of course we know capitalism never really goes to sleep, and that December is when consumer culture reaches its fever pitch, even as the news cycle turns down the dial on   hard news   towards human interest, lifestyle and entertainment coverage.  Amid heightened political interference and censorship of not only commercial media and journalism, but of scientific and social scientific research, the arts and education, seasonal   soft news   exacerbates the algorithmic suppression of critical thought and public engagement with the reality of ongoing massacres in Sudan, the DRC, floods and orchestrated famine in occupied Palestine, bombing campaigns conducted during a socalled   ceasefire,   and so much more  another way of mitigating culpability and accountability, another way of turning away. At such festive times, it takes more work to not only notice but oppose the collusion between routine and escalating strategies operating to numb human feeling for the suffering of others, to normalize feelings of powerlessness, alienation from public life and acceptance of violence at every scale of state operations, in legally and ideologically constructed and blatantly illegal forms.  This issue of JCRI features critical and creative analyses that work to deexceptionalize such systemically repressive operations, to combat normalization and the felt inevitability of the systems we live and die so unevenly within and under. To resist and revitalize resistance with thought, image, relation and memory. Emily Grafton and Amber Fletcher  s   Settler Colonial Saskatchewan and Gender-Based Violence against Indigenous Women,   employs structural analysis to ground an argument exposing the centrality of violence against Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people to the state  s maintenance and expansion of settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession. Matthew Hughey  s     I do consider some of them to be racially white but they shall not be White  : Terrorist Manifestos and the Construction of White Masculinity   offers a painstaking and difficult reading of hate rhetoric in white supremacist manifestos published online in order to understand the work these manifestos do in constructing and circulating   crisis white masculinity.   Contra scholarly and popular interpretations that psychologize or exceptionalize these manifestos as expressive of fringe actors or extremist groups, Hughey  s reading foregrounds their ideological share in   widespread, banal, and largely accepted attitudes held by many white Americans today.    EDITOR  S NOTE  ii  Finally, Adele N. Norris, Glen Conley, Garrick Cooper and Jessica Martin  s   Contemporary Relevance of Anne Moody, Black Studies and Imprisoned Black Intellectual Thought   performs a collaborative poetic and analytic engagement with prisoner and educator Glen Conley  s scholarship on and teaching of the life and work of Anne Moody within the Mississippi prison context. Mobilizing a prison praxis approach, the essay considers Moody  s and Conley  s liberatory thought and praxis as they play out in, and speak to, the contemporary moment of intensifying legislated anti-Blackness and attempts to censure and erase Black thought and resistance from the historical record, from public institutions and the consciousness of US citizens. Also in this issue, Nikta Sadati reviews George Yancey and Hayoung David Oh  s book,   Who Is Antiracist?: Beliefs, Motivations, and Politics  , a text which attempts to develop quantitative methods for understanding popular anti-racism in the US as it has been shaped by the Movement for Black Lives and mobilizations against murderous anti-Black police violence and judicial and societal collusion in police impunity.  In this issue  s Intervention,   Speaking to Monuments and their Ghosts: Performance Art as Ephemeral Knowledge Sharing,   Erin Sutherland revisits and reflects upon her 2015 curation of anti- and decolonial performances,   Talkin Back to Johnny Mac,   and its sequel ten years later. The 2015 series was occasioned by the 200th birthday celebrations for John A. Macdonald held in Kingston, Ontario in 2015, and intervened in memorializations that whitewashed the racial violence and structural dispossession effected by Canada  s first prime minister, at the site of his statue in Kingston. Returning to the site of the statue in October 2025, several years after its removal, Sutherland organized a new performance series to explore the ways in which the site had changed since the removal, and to explore continuities with the earlier moment. In this essay she discusses performances by artists David Garneau, Leah Decter, Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick to think through the politics of memorialization, the durability of settler colonial violence, and also the capacity of decolonial performance and community made in art and resistance. Zainab Khalid has done exceptional work as the interim managing editor for JCRI for this issue and over the last six months, and we have been truly fortunate to have her in the role while Jane Kirby has been away on maternity leave. We look forward to welcoming Jane back in the new year, and are also hopeful that Zainab will continue to be part of the JCRI editorial team in a new capacity. This issue benefited as well from the hard work and careful eye of our graduate research assistant, Lakith Ranawera, a graduate student in the Gender Studies Department at Queen  s. Our managing editor can be reached at managingeditor.jcri@queensu.ca. Juliane Okot Bitek edits JCRI  s Interventions section; to propose an Intervention, you can reach out to her at managingeditor.jcri@queensu.ca. Kesha Fevrier edits the JCRI blog, which you can read at: https://jcri.ca/index.php/CRI/announcement. Kesha is also our book review editor, and we are soliciting book reviewers for upcoming issues. To receive a list of books we are interested in having reviewed or to make a proposal, contact us at managingeditor.jcri@queensu.ca.