Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Salivary glands allow us to produce enough saliva to spit, which can be a defense mechanism against the dangers of poisoning, an expression of outrage, a sexual practice, even lubricant
On Twitter, Mariame Kaba posts a quotation from Elizabeth Povinelli: “Not this” makes a difference even if it does not immediately produce a propositional otherwise.…
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.