Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Beyond Belief
A class of kids goes to see Waiting for Superman ready to hate it. They cry anyway. Why isn't being convinced enough?
The Bread of Idleness
Since antiquity, it has paid to work for the government
Minor Feelings
While coverage of the riot grrrl movement inadvertently domesticated blunt female rage, Juliana Hatfield honed the critical edge of ambivalence
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading was an aesthetic and ideological phenomenon that was a response to the crisis of what could be called filiation—
Beauty Blogosphere 6.28.13
Tom Ford's dudely new cosmetics line, hijab fashionistas, and fashion tips from Mr. T.
Get real
What in Jennifer Egan's novel Look at Me read as narcissism in 2001 now seems like routine self-care
#KenyaRefuses
#KenyaRefuses is a carnival of transgressive Kenyan voices mapping out their rejection of both the premises and the outcome of Kenya’s March 2013 election.
Introduction
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Aaron: I would like to introduce you to some very brave and…
Postcards From Si Kenya
Tena mwanangu idhili, Mbee za makabaili, Uwaonapo mahali, Angusa kuwenukiya. Further, my child, humble yourself, before people of rank, when you see them anywhere, quickly…
Against Voting
image by imp kerr A conversation between two friends (or strangers). Okwiri: “Vote well, eh? We have to put our man inside Statehouse,” said a…
Kenya Will Never Was
image by imp kerr "[Kenya] was never innocent...You can’t ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can’t lose…
Politics of Contempt
Of all the fine and pretty sights in this fine and pretty world, none is finer or prettier than the sight of the full-bellied urging…
Wailing
Something has died.
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
"I think that’s a real issue in the military—and in our society—about beauty and gender stereotypes, that pretty can’t be tough. We don't think about soldiers as being women."
Parasite
Parasite is about what it means to let someone else into your dreams. You play by clicking on words.
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