Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Sunday Reading: November 26, 2023
Indigenous Justice on Movement Memos On November 23, thousands of Indigenous people and allies participated in the annual Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island organized…
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
The Second Week
Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others had no such luxury. Some succumb to…
The First Week
Dispatch from the Palestinian Youth Movement
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
American Sajaegi
Music chart manipulation is becoming the marketing strategy of reactionaries
Writing Like a Partisan
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
A Story About American Music Festivals
Ramadan Diaries: Many Eids
Ramadan makes me feel like I'm living inside a Rolling Stones song. It doesn't matter which one
Ramadan Diaries: Where's the Information?
There will be no American garbage uprising
Midwest
Sofia Samatar is the author of five books, most recently the memoir The White Mosque. Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently…
Ramadan Diaries: Heroes & Orphans
In feeling so othered, so alien, so alone and for so long, the orphan develops a taste for otherness itself. To be so truly unbelonged anywhere one has to create a self that belongs everywhere.
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
I felt the pull of a huge shift, a vortex swallowing a former shriveled identity and leaving me with the terror of choice, a new path.
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