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.

When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive

To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond

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

Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution

Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex

How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social