This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
Shop Talk
Kristen Stewart haunts Personal Shopper with a presence all of her own.
The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy
Focusing on nonviolence won’t decrease our nation’s prison population.
Cruel Pessimism
A new book on debt reminds us that we have not left the time of crisis yet
The Demand Remains
To equate white motherhood, black motherhood and the fear that runs through them is violent and nothing else.
Vacate the Slave State
Taking lessons from maroon societies, it’s time to reimagine and transform how we view prison abolition.
Homeward Bound
With electronic home monitoring, the prisoner pays for her cell and becomes her own prison guard.
Administrative Remedy
The 2.2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States exist in a state of perpetual vulnerability to unchecked administrative power.
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
Lil Wayne’s prison memoir is one of the most boring ever written, which is why it’s a success.
The Right to Remain Silent
Ableism, the English to prison pipeline, and the plight of deaf inmates.
Hal
Delayed reflections on Jim Jarmusch and Talal Asad
Voyeur Reality
Virtual Reality satisfies Western voyeurism without consequence. It will not blunt the global fervor to hinder the movement of bodies.
New World Anxiety
The New World is constantly creating new economies that are driven by Black demise; Black America has to adapt to the technological advances and grim visualizations that come with such updates.
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
“The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me—roads, airports, bridges. I know how to build” —@RealDonaldTrump, May 2015
Consuming la Malinche, Destroying the Myth
The myth of Mexico’s first indigenous mother holds that her betrayal marked all her descendants as bastards, but the real culprit has always been empire.