Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'
By Brad Bolman In the waning years of 1940, Mary Jane Cook began work in the Health Physics department of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, named…
Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
By Robert Davis Beauty and self-care has always been in conversation with contemporary politics, especially regarding race, gender, class, and privilege. While the concept of…
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
The Diasporist of Drohobycz
A new translation of Bruno Schulz’s stories reveals the local in vitalist understandings of diaspora that do not need to claim a Jewish state to flourish
Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Solidarity with Grad Workers
Who is afraid of the big bad graduate student union?
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
New Zealand’s Dragon Lady of Paleontology
By Nathan Kapoor
Kate Sheppard and the Science of Suffrage in New Zealand
By Kate Sheppard
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
I dwell frequently on the notion that the male body expands and the female body contracts in public space
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