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.
Sunday Reading
"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fit Provender
“Why not throb with superior vitality!"
Five Questions with Nikki Giovanni
Didn’t Miles Davis once say to John Coltrane: Whatever you play, play the blues?
London, Underground
Laurie Penny on London under Olympic occupation
Beauty Blogosphere 7.27.12
Glamour bonnets, the great eyelash courtroom drama, domestic violence awareness in hair salons, the Icelandic Phallological Museum, and more.
Already Pretty Giveaway
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’re well aware of my admiration for Sally McGraw, the mind behind Already…
Live Through This
Rape is often regarded as the worst thing that can happen to a woman, a sort of spiritual murder
Loving Franko B
The artist Franko B is something of an ambassador for love — or rather, its aftermath. When love gathers its things and goes, what does it leave behind?
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
it fills the screen and narrative arc with all sorts of bells and whistles, bloating its running time way beyond necessity, and generally wearing you down with all sorts of things that are not Occupy Wall Street until you don’t notice anymore that it’s all the fuck about Occupy Wall Street.
A Bandit is a Bandit
Maniacal evil has a face, and that face nearly always glints darkly.
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 11)
We dream of windows all the way down or walls that encircle us to hold lives inside like the guts of a stabbed belly. If they are not pressed close by walls as hands press close we will gush forth.
Drone-Court Advantage
Progressives need to “D” up for the Big O’s second-term bid — if they know what’s good for them
The Alienation of Mary Kay
What Mary Kay workers hope will be flexibility turns out to be precarity—the very thing that prevents many of us from “fulfilling our dreams” or “reaching for the stars” or any of the bootstraps-happy talk we’re led to believe is the key to success.
The literary
Only people and not books can be literary. To claim a book is literary is to try to use it to naturalize one's snobbishness
Kapow!
For it's formal innovation and gutsy story, we reviewed Adam Thirwell's Kapow! twice
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