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On Ableism and Animals

By Sunaura TaylorMay 30, 2017
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
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White Defenders

By Patrick BlanchfieldMay 23, 2017
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
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On Feminism’s Fragile Army

By Mahvish AhmadMay 15, 2017
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
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Spell-Check Nation

By Maya BinyamMay 10, 2017
Why do people continue to align themselves with the fantasy of a decorous state?
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Trust in Instinct

By Aviva StahlMay 9, 2017
Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse.
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Free Us All

By Mariame KabaMay 8, 2017
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
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Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
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Death Undone

By Nehal El-HadiMay 2, 2017
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
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Misery Loves Company

By Jake RommApril 26, 2017
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
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This Is Going to Hurt

By Lacino HamiltonApril 12, 2017
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
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The Myth of Liberal Policing

By Alex S. VitaleApril 5, 2017
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
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Shop Talk

By Hannah GoldApril 4, 2017
Kristen Stewart haunts Personal Shopper with a presence all of her own.
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The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy

By Victoria LawApril 3, 2017
Focusing on nonviolence won’t decrease our nation’s prison population.
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Cruel Pessimism

By Brian WhitenerMarch 30, 2017
A new book on debt reminds us that we have not left the time of crisis yet
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The Demand Remains

By Aria DeanMarch 28, 2017
To equate white motherhood, black motherhood and the fear that runs through them is violent and nothing else.
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Vacate the Slave State

By Bobby LondonMarch 27, 2017
Taking lessons from maroon societies, it’s time to reimagine and transform how we view prison abolition.

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