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“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.
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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
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Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State

By c. e.September 13, 2021
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
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Pfizer Walk With Me

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantSeptember 13, 2021
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
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Eine kleine Paranoia

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiSeptember 13, 2021
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
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The Year of Magical Thinking

By Gasira TimirSeptember 13, 2021
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
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The Contagious Assembly

By Alex BenhamAugust 24, 2020
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
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Life During Wartime

By Ju-Hyun ParkJuly 27, 2020
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
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Abolition is Not a Suburb

By Tamara K. NopperJuly 16, 2020
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability
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Fame Shame

By Sophia GiovannittiJuly 9, 2020
Cyrus Dunham’s debut memoir, A Year Without A Name, tells the story of his gender transition. He slowly allows himself to embody a gender other…
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Push It to No Limits

By Kandist MallettJuly 7, 2020
How to escape the cop kettles on the streets and in our spirits
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Ambiguity City

By Eliza LevinsonJune 30, 2020
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
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Bound to Black

By Joey DiZoglioJune 22, 2020
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
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Twilight of the Mentors

By Anna E. ClarkMay 19, 2020
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
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Faraway Sisters

By Hannah SatzMay 6, 2020
After family is broken open, disparate daughters find joy or solidarity in the absence of the father
Essays & Reviews, Features

Just Play

By Josh MyersApril 13, 2020
Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing

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