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Korea Under Ceasefire

By Minju BaeMay 27, 2025
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
The Beheld

Thank You for Shopping: Customer Loyalty Programs

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoApril 2, 2014
To thank you for spending money at Sephora, you get the opportunity to spend more money at Sephora.
Zunguzungu

Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #124

By Aaron BadyApril 1, 2014
If this was a question—a simple prose sentence—it would open outward: in the answer to the question, we would find its wholeness, completion. It would…
Essays & Reviews

You Are Too Much

By Hannah BlackApril 1, 2014
The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling
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Zunguzungu

"This is when things got weird. And ugly."

By Aaron BadyMarch 31, 2014
self-promotion race hustling ideological motivation distasteful silly dumb wrong distasteful shrill misguided frivolous annoying infuriating disingenuous and self-aggrandizing incite this particular riot mess she leaves in her wake cheapened by the ease, and sometimes frivolity
Essays & Reviews

Hungry for Love

By Ana Cecilia AlvarezMarch 31, 2014
With art that hopes to go too far, who gets to ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Features

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyMarch 30, 2014
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Zunguzungu

(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"

By Aaron BadyMarch 29, 2014
This is not a poem that
Zunguzungu

"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"

By Aaron BadyMarch 28, 2014
For whatever reason, I was digging through some old papers (actually, the depths of my inbox) and I came across the notes for a paper…
Uncategorized

Consent Mixtape

By Hermione Hoby and Michael BarronMarch 28, 2014
13 songs about yes, no, and everything between for our March issue
Essays & Reviews

Don't Look Now

By Angus JohnstonMarch 27, 2014
Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetype of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were
Zunguzungu

The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."

By Aaron BadyMarch 27, 2014
Everyone knows that the world is what it is and that men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. What this post presupposes is, maybe it isn't?
Uncategorized

Are You Being Sex Trafficked?

By Tara BurnsMarch 26, 2014
Take this quiz and find out!
The Austerity Kitchen

The Tao of Chow

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 26, 2014
First there is some mutton. Then there is no mutton. Then there is
Essays & Reviews

Baghdad, Utopia

By Mend MariwanyMarch 25, 2014
The problem of exile: the real rupture happens when you return
The Beheld

Gilding the Lily

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 25, 2014
The minute you start to look at divisions between "good" and "bad" beauty work, they start to unravel.

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Uncategorized

Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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