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.
We Shall Overcome: The Problem With the Body-Love Therapeutic Narrative
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 Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion
After the cultural forms of the 1960s were co-opted in the name of the manufacture of cool, yacht rock was the next dialectical turn
All Cats Are Alike Grey in the Night
As Djuna Barnes notes, the radical equality found in Bohemian lairs means you'll observe there neither fat cats nor sourpusses
TNI Vol. 8: Other Animals
Subscribe Here for $2 Today TNI releases the eighth volume of our monthly e-magazine, this one on the topic of "Other Animals." It contains some…
The Ahmeds in America, Part One
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.
Sunday Reading
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…
Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
Water wigs, Fox News makeup artistry, flame-proof makeup, and Mint Romney body lotion.
The Tryhards
Chris Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites wants it both ways: solving radical problems without radical change.
Northern Exposure
A retired American judge learned that the summertime blues are unheard of in the land of the midnight sun
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
The state exploited the very real desire for political solidarity among people of color to advance its agenda
The Thin Blue Lie
Why civilian investigations of police misconduct do more to excuse it than prevent it
If You Build It, They Will Come
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.
Nice Book Reviews
And no, I don’t want to be the raving paranoid curmudgeon all of the time, but where does the anger go?
Boardwalk YOLO and ASMR videos
Smartphones encourage us to live more chaotically in everyday life while promising at the same time a safe, womb-like harbor from the disarray
Mr Encyclopedia
Edinburgh. It’s my third day here, a return to Scotland after 18 years away. My readings at the book festival are done, and all I…
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