Journalist Laurie Penny sent me snaps and stories of her busmates on the way to the anti-NATO protests in Chicago: kids who were singing Disney songs as they prepared to be beaten and arrested. So I drew them.
Much more surprising than getting pushed around by museum security was the realization that an institution devoted to procuring objects for people to look at was actively blocking their view of a live event, happening in front of our very living eyeballs.
By all accounts, Susan Sontag found being alone intolerable. Solitude is a problem for writers generally, and men are often worse at being alone than women.
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.