Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom

How organizers in Colombia’s biggest port city shut it down for 22 days, winning major concessions from the national government

Now, you can party with a simulated version of yourself

Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.

The daddy archetypes representing different sexual appeals of the dating-simulator game Dream Daddy are reimagined as “dadsonas” of the political, not parenting, type. In RPG style, you take on the role of an overwhelmed outsider trying to make his way through a party and figure out which ideological hottie to go home with.

This is a story about the telos of our current wave of megablockbuster superhero films and shows, beginning roughly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2007 and The Dark Knight in 2008, which endowed the genre with broad critical respectability, public embrace, limitless bankrolls, a persistent universe, and a viable playbook for adapting second-string intellectual

It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known

The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over

The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale

Dear Marooned Alien Princess, Where is the line drawn between appreciation and cultural appropriation? Why can’t I just enjoy things from other cultures? Isn’t denying…

Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations

Three great minds consider what queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique.

A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene