Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
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.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
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.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
To turn the U.S.-Mexico border into the Border, America had to erase its Caribbean history
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Ramadan Diaries, Day Six
No one appears to come out and say that the three-meal-a-day diet is a historical accompaniment of capitalism
Triple-Decker Weekly, 145
Parents forget newborn baby in taxi on way home from hospital
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
I use the song until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I’ll feed on it again
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia
By E. L. Meszaros
Ramadan Diaries, Day Two
FIELD DAY BROTH VEGETABLE LOW SOD 1.77
Ramadan Diaries, Day One
I seem to have lost the ability to multitask
Vol. 70 Editors’ Note: Service
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?
How It Feels to Be Free
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Abel, Buried by a Crow
The 1915 Armenian Genocide endures in the very fabric of Turkish society—but who remembers and who takes responsibility?