On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Spell-Check Nation
Why do people continue to align themselves with the fantasy of a decorous state?
Trust in Instinct
Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse.
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
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.
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
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.