The Second Week
Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
Sunday Reading June 18th 2023
“The Limits of David Foster Wallace” by Isabel Pabán Freed The shape of depression is often hedging. Writers are asked not to hedge; being sure of…
Sunday Reading June 4th 2023
Doom Generation 4k Restoration An uncensored director’s cut of Doom Generation, a “heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki” shot “on location in hell,” premiered at Sundance…
Sunday Reading May 13th 2023
This Sunday, we've curated a selection of reading around the theme of motherhood. “Rather than being universal, motherhood is always figured within a necropolitical, racializing logic that…
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
Sunday Reading April 30th 2023
Many years ago, when the internet was far less corporate, a group of readers curated a reading list of the pieces they found most worth…
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.
Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!
An excerpt
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end…
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part II)
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022 (Part II)
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