Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Can the Subaltern Vote?
In 2016, the Democratic Party started seeing Muslims as voters, but that’s not necessarily a favor
This is Not a Simulation
The computer simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
The American Model
What appears to be still difficult, even as it gets told in ever finer detail, is the simple and immense situation that America and Nazi Germany are two instantiations of a single history of white supremacist rule.
The Pity of Okja
Okja critiques affective labor—but it nonetheless relies on its effects to market animal rights
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Dispensing God’s Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Becoming a Leak
Institutions track us through our blood, sweat, and tears, but embracing leakiness has the potential to be a productive experience for an individual