Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
The Novel Refuses
Any attempt to say what this novel is becomes a statement of what the novel feels itself becoming and declines to be.
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Toward a Feminist Astrobiology
By Anna Reser
Life and Death in Dioramas
By Hillary Moses Mohaupt
Blood and Glory
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
Nuclear Renewal
Viewers can now browse footage of Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests on Youtube. What is the value of that access?
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Dear Marooned Alien Princess, Where is the line drawn between appreciation and cultural appropriation? Why can’t I just enjoy things from other cultures? Isn’t denying…
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Survival in Audre Lorde
The word “survival” felt bone-deep familiar when I encountered it in Audre Lorde’s writing
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Day Residue
On Danzy Senna's NEW PEOPLE.
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones