Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
Groupthinkers
A review of Divining Desire (OR Books) by Liza Featherstone
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
Bad faith: a magnanimous euphemism. To accuse someone of acting in bad faith is to assume that their motives are duplicitous. It avoids calling them…
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People We, the native Americans, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of…
Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Bail Bloc
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
Editors’ Note, Vol. 65: Jobs
Zadie Smith recently described a Manhattan social encounter in the New York Review of Books’s NYR Daily by pointing out that among the crowd (which…
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
The State of the Unions
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.