With no time for tenderness, I see my body as a sack of flesh and little more

From On Becoming Undone

The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.

A onetime culture-hero of a liberal democracy, OJ Simpson’s manner of relationality is unrecognizable and incommunicable

The Sopranos is about not a crisis of masculinity but a crisis of capitalism

Transmasculinity, feminism, and the politics of online

Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines

The revolution will not be a job fair. No one is gonna check your CV.

To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely

Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide

Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed

A love letter to Mariah Carey

Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential

Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation

Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.

Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.