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.
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
It’s beginning to be impossible to write about how impossible it is to write about love
Call in campaign to #DropJ20 #DefendJ20
On Dec. 21 2017, a jury returned a not-guilty verdict to the first six defendants in the J20 case, where hundreds of people were arrested…
Factory Made
A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls
Secret Catalan Poem
The dark, heavy energy of paranoia, fear, and defense; the protective nature of shelter, housing, and land re-appropriation
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Bring Herman Home
In response to vengeful threats from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, a coalition of public officials, artists, activists, formerly incarcerated people, and crime survivors calls to maintain the planned release of former Black Panther Herman Bell.
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Canceled Message (Part Three)
How to erase yourself (almost) completely
Women’s Work in Natural History Museums
By Jenna Tonn
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
By Megan Shields Formato
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
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