Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Re: Ordinance Prohibiting the Possession of the Tools of Violence And Vandalism During a Demonstration
Camouflage that makes all rioters look like local businesses, camouflage that creeps down the throats of riot police on little rat feet.
Neither Fish Nor Flesh
The recent ubiquity of mermaids reflects the yearning to celebrate primal female energy in a culture that often denies it
From the Favelas
A report from the demonstrations and demonstrators of Rio de Janeiro
"She Has Glasses"
"If I didn't have glasses, I would be in the competition with everyone else to be pretty." (Guest post.)
Jagged Little Pill
A review of Holly Grigg-Spall's Sweetening The Pill
Sex, Love, and the Novel @ Housing Works Bookstore
Join Emily Cooke, Kate Bolick, Parul Sehgal, Adelle Waldman, and moderator David Haglund as they discuss whether the fluid nature of modern relationships present a special challenge…
Conspicuous Consumption
The only real vegan is a dead vegan
Coming to My Senses
Memoir excerpt and giveaway.
Sunday Reading
He skipped Wednesday and Sunday. Wednesday and Sunday was when they borrowed Benjamin Baby.
A Contribution to the Critique of John Mayer
To recognize the fact that John Mayer has not been executed calls into doubt our entire conception of history.
Submitted as an Affidavit of Material Support for Lynne Stewart
Facts about former attorney/current prisoner Lynne Stewart hereby submitted as material support.
En passant
Some notes on Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess
Feeding Animosity
Hell is eating with other people
Cold Cases
A review of Robert Kolker's Lost Girls
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