Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
Bail Bloc 2.0
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail—and ICE.
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Vol. 68 Editor’s Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
All Out to Block the Alt-Right
Print out these posters and organize a "Stop the Hate" event in your city
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
A Gay Communist Manifesto
An excerpt from the classic 1977 text Towards A Gay Communism
A Vessel Among Vessels: For Laura Aguilar
Memories of a dyke bar in East LA conjure and are conjured by the work of Laura Aguilar
What Lands On Us
An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.
A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone
From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike