On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Vol. 72 Editors’ Note: Bad Vibes
A rough cut of emotion and body language, what we might one day call “our affective commons”
Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
So Many Secrets
A roundtable on cultural organizing in New York City
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Fight for the Future
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Vol. 71 Editors’ Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
The Limit Does Not Exist
An interview with Marxist philosopher Joshua Moufawad-Paul about the science of revolution at a time when socialism is supposedly becoming mainstream