Parasitism reminds us that there is a third form of relationship that is neither participating nor opting out, neither eliminating nor redistributing, but repurposing
"We've been picked apart our entire lives by strangers. People think they're complimenting one twin, but really it means the other doesn't have that particular positive attribute. It's not fun to be 'the twin who doesn't do her hair.'"
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since." -- Beverly Cleary
"When one is disappointed, one is always wrong. You should never be disappointed with the answers you receive, because if you are, that's wonderful, it proves that it was a real answer, that is to say exactly what you weren't expecting"
I usually decline product offers, since I'm more likely to write a 2,400-word screed on "the secret language of toner" than I am to chirp "pores smaller!" But I wasn't above the free spray tan.
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.