The New Inquiry

Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022

Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.

Features

You Belong Here, Beloved Reader – An Interview with Diriye Osman

By Sofia SamatarJune 28, 2022

"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"

Features

“Imagine What We’ll Build for One Another”: an Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson

By Beatrice Adler-BoltonJune 23, 2022

Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire

Shines Like Gold

Pet Psychic

By imp kerrJune 20, 2022

Do people actually learn from failure?

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Pandemic

Vol. 75 | September 2021

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The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past

By Jaime BrooksJune 2, 2022

I’ve been thinking about record clubs lately. Do you remember those? If not, they were these mail-order services that you could buy CDs from in…

Features

Seen and Unseen; An interview with the authors of a new book on police abuse footage

By Hanna PhiferMay 31, 2022

When Darnella Frazier recorded the execution of George Floyd on her cell phone, she was entering into a long tradition of citizen sourced reporting that…

Shines Like Gold

Swiping is dead

By imp kerrMay 19, 2022

When a knife thrower hurls blades around a woman secured to a spinning wheel, it's called the Wheel of Death. So what do you call it when that wheel is entirely hidden by a paper veil?

Death Panel

Mask Off

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelApril 28, 2022

The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.

Stretch

Understanding abolition through bell hooks

By Tamara K. NopperApril 25, 2022

hooks considered personal confession as the beginning, not the end

Shines Like Gold

I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days

By imp kerrApril 6, 2022

Is information the fifth state of matter?

Streaming Services

By Jaime BrooksMarch 6, 2022

Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry

Essays & Reviews

“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe

By Charlie MarkbreiterMarch 1, 2022

When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.

Lines of Revolt

A Very Long Winter

By LiaisonsFebruary 28, 2022

War transforms everything – we are suddenly for or against armies, revolutionaries become soldiers, coalitions monopolize politics, patriotic fervor swells, and the party of order…

Shines Like Gold

Excessive Bell-Ringing

By imp kerrFebruary 28, 2022

British tourist reunited with false teeth he lost while vomiting in Spain 11 years ago

Death Panel

“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection

By Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelFebruary 22, 2022

The sociological production of the “end of the pandemic” means a wholesale rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable, but it also means the creation of countless new medically vulnerable people.

Essays & Reviews

21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes

By ML KejeraFebruary 10, 2022

When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019

The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.

Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018

A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons

Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017

What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.

Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017

The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.

Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017

The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over

Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017

The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.