"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."
An interview with Twine-game designer Porpentine about interactive fiction, “trash spinning,” and how to destroy the “completely unredeemable” games culture
The NSA's recent history shows that PRISM is hardly an aberration, but rather the most recent program in the state's continuous search for total knowledge capture
If you spend a lifetime housing your internal surveillance system, you might not be terribly surprised when you find that there are external surveyors you hadn't considered.
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
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.
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.
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.