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.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor
Miracles and Wonder, Faith and Diaspora: On Tope Folarin's "Miracle"
Week One of the Caine Prize Blogathon
Sunday Reading
Art from Christian Bowe. ReclaimUC. I bond with RUC over data dumps. Highlights include: "Never waste a crisis." –Jamshed Bharucha, President of Cooper Union (p.…
Safe in Our Archives
If the self is an archive, the metadata matters
Trivial Pursuits
Why do we think of the kleptomaniac as being usually a woman, and why do we find her so alluring?
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
Procter & Gamble goes back to its Satanic roots, the real-life Barbie Dream House, Sharpie eyeliner, and more.
The World Turned Upside Down
The folly of man exemplified in twelve comical relations upon uncommon subjects
Blogging the Caine, 2013
"Ah, the tyranny of mzungu prizes!"
An Embarrassment of Citrus
"A great liquid bite ... covers the lower part of his face with pip and drip"
Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist?
Yes, yes, you're a feminist who wears lipstick. But would you call yourself a lipstick feminist, or is she made of straw?
Fire Escape
Revolutions are the confused youth of history, paralyzed by possibility even as they’re enthralled by it
I Want to Believe
Just because we can hear the black helicopters doesn’t mean they don’t exist
Bravo, Gentlemen!
Auberive prison, November 28, 1872, 7 a.m. Murderers, can you hear time’s bell? In any event, I'm content with this. We suffered but we saved…
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