Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...guns or supply weapons in defense of Black people’s freedom and thus, purportedly be more willing to put one’s life on the line. Simply put, Aoki was, for some of...
Editors' Note, Vol. 41: Fans
...for a while, simply because commodities are made of people -- there really is someone on the other side. And sometimes what you want from your object isn't reciprocated love...
The Carceral State
...California gets called “progressive” despite operating one of the world’s largest prison systems. “Abolition is not simply a reaction to the [prison-industrial complex] but a political commitment that...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...in the same town or got to have Froot Loops every morning if they wanted. It simply wasn’t an option for me, and I didn’t particularly mind, telling myself that...
Fans
...They know how to seize pleasure from the world and hold tight even as it hurts them. If fandom is simply an obedient response to the signals of the consumer...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...set a record for days in space because, as he explains, what he has seen on earth sickens him. Space is clean, free, and peaceful; there is no violence. Until...
Get the Balance Right
...conformist language of political professionals. In the same spirit, in "Critique of Violence" he invokes divine violence as problematic, yet inaccessible limit-concept to put forward his revolutionary anarchist politics of...
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
This is 40?
...gleefully told Filmmaker Magazine recently he’d rather hang out with black people than white. Is, Korine a social critic or simply a prankster? Are we supposed repulsed by the decadence...
Ever Since This World Began
What truth are our faces allowed to show today?
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...in depicting the unreal asks, simply, Why? Bangin': A comic all about bangs. (via Stuff Mom Never Told You) Opting in: Mara hits a key point of self-care...
The Space NDN's Star Map
...the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction was published, the first-ever anthology of its kind. This was the official inauguration of indigenous futurism. The movement is in part about...
Trailing after Tarzan
...in that manner, it’s completely ridiculous to imagine even a chimpanzee climbing through the jungle canopy carrying a female chimp. Unless you can simply fly like Superman, you need two...
Namaste Inc.
...exorbitant prices. Another spot encourages Indians to be warm and hospitable to their foreign guests. They are to be proud of their culture, and not simply for the knowledge that...
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...I didn’t fully grasp it and wanted to be sure about the intentions of the author and the character. Many of my thoughts from the first reading were confirmed by...
Bikini, Kill
...then buses home solo rather than tolerate a minute more on his terms. When the girls ride through town on scooters in just bikinis, they are simply in spring break’s...