Cal Poly Humboldt rapidly developed into the militant front of the campus Palestinian liberation movement. After repelling a police assault during their occupation of Siemens Hall—renamed Intifada Hall—the commune claimed much of the campus. We spoke to two participants about their efforts.
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Two YA novelists discuss the gender politics of literature’s biggest growth industry John M. Cusick (JC) is an editor at Armchair/Shotgun and literary agent specializing in YA…
A review of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One From all accounts, it is Colson Whitehead’s time. The Brooklyn writer, 140-character artist, and MacArthur fellow is set…
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Debating the blinkered Hollywood take on race in films like The Help and Rise of the Apes only helps perpetuate it Positive or negative, reviews of a new film…
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.