Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Ladies First
A queens-themed crossword puzzle
Canceled Message (Part One)
Self-erasure, deletion, and effacement.
Trigger for What
Trigger warnings on literature in college courses is not illiberal coddling but a reflection of the false universality of "great books" syllabi
The Art of the Rebuttal: Katherine Dunn
There is another way to look at the Tyson Bite affair. Try this. The bites were against the rules and should be penalized, but they were understandable and even justified
The Art of Data: Literary Cities
The frequency with which the names of American cities appeared in print over the last two centuries
Choose Your Own Adventure
Racialized sexual fantasies imagine desire as an array of exciting ice cream flavors, but the consumer is always assumed to be vanilla.
World Hair Cup 2014 Updates
You've cast your group stage vote in the World Hair Cup, right? If not, do so immediately—the world needs to know which hair will dominate.…
Un(der)known Writers: Aimé Césaire
...that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms...
Foreword to Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde
Violette Leduc's autobiographical La bâtarde is an oft-overlooked classic of feminist literature.
Sunday Reading
Hello sister brother.
This Week in Art Crime
A geriatric Australian man tags a police station and flees on a toy scooter; A photographer takes blurry images of CIA black sites
You Don’t Own Me
Performance collective Chez Deep explores drag performance as both physical and emotional labor
"Sharing" Economy and Self-Exploitation
All capital, all the time
Margot, Not at the Wedding
La Reine Margot recasts the 16th-century queen as a prisoner not of religion but of love—and class
Advance Fragments: Circling the Square
An excerpt from the upcoming publication on the intersection of art and the EuroMaidan: Circling the Square
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
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.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks