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Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”

By Devana SenanayakeNovember 10, 2025
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Lady Science

The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction

By Lady ScienceAugust 16, 2018
By Erica Eisen
Lady Science

Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control

By Lady ScienceAugust 16, 2018
By Kaitlin Stack-Whitney
Essays & Reviews

The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World

By Liz BowenAugust 13, 2018
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
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Essays & Reviews

Staging an Epidemic

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezAugust 10, 2018
What is AIDS to you?
South/South

Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviAugust 3, 2018
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
Essays & Reviews

Pop at the End

By Adlan JacksonJuly 31, 2018
This is what the end of the world sounds like
Features

All Out to Block the Alt-Right

By TNIJuly 28, 2018
Print out these posters and organize a "Stop the Hate" event in your city
Wiathi

Africa : Queer : Anthropology

By Keguro MachariaJuly 28, 2018
Of the many ways to narrate the emergence of queer studies, I most like Tim Dean’s claim that Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex: Notes for a…
South/South

Two Poems by Paulo Leminski

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJuly 27, 2018
[An outlaw is...]
Essays & Reviews

Work, Supermodel

By Niko MaragosJuly 27, 2018
madison moore’s new book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, centers the present history of black and brown queer ballroom culture
Wiathi

Not this. More that!

By Keguro MachariaJuly 23, 2018
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.…
Lady Science

Diseases Of Virgins And Spinsters: The Gynephobic History Of Chlorosis And Hysteria

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Ann Foster
Lady Science

The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Lorraine Boissoneault
Lady Science

Fear, Pain, and the Representation of Women’s Wartime Trauma

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Bridget Keown
Features

“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”

By Arvind DilawarJuly 6, 2018
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Uncategorized

Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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