When we problematize the cognizance of our own body and frame it as something to overcome, we leave little room for a woman's relationship with her appearance that doesn't fit into this construct: We make the narrative as rigid as the iron maiden of beauty that we're trying to wriggle our way out of.
The lawyer is also interested in finding an expert witness to testify about cultural and family practices in rural Pakistan, perhaps a sociologist, anthropologist or even a community leader familiar with the culture.
Jacob Remes: The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Marikana. "And on the deadly Thursday afternoon, N’s murderer could only have been…
Instead if somehow serving the needs of transgender people, a prison reserved exclusively for them merely ensures that unchecked social stigma will result in continued abrogation of justice.
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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.