AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Ever Since This World Began
What truth are our faces allowed to show today?
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 26, 2020)
Killer cake-eating contests, steam-table economics, and space cookies.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 19, 2020)
Brits breaking vegan, seaweed-eating sheep, and this is your brain on sugar.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 14, 2020)
Cocktail-inspired yogurt, a brief history of scurvy, and baby-dolphin-eating celebrities.
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 5, 2020)
The problem with food authenticity, food theme parks, and how to eat your Christmas tree.
Dear Mammy
April 29, 4:49 p.m. Dear Mammy, Just checking in. How are you? How did the workshop go? I know you wanted feedback on your…
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
Body / Cock: The Body That is Not Personal
This is how I learn to live life with death as my equal
OJ, Boomer
A onetime culture-hero of a liberal democracy, OJ Simpson’s manner of relationality is unrecognizable and incommunicable
Welfare Capo
The Sopranos is about not a crisis of masculinity but a crisis of capitalism
On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway)
Transmasculinity, feminism, and the politics of online
Presenting Men
Some considerations...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of December 15, 2019)
Post-Brexit food woes, rat-eating monkeys, and historical delicacies you’d never want to try.
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