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Exporting the Revolution

By Bassem SaadFebruary 16, 2023
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
Features

Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation 

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Death Panel

Mask Off

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelApril 28, 2022
The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.
Stretch

Understanding abolition through bell hooks

By Tamara K. NopperApril 25, 2022
hooks considered personal confession as the beginning, not the end
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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Shines Like Gold

I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days

By imp kerrApril 6, 2022
Is information the fifth state of matter?
Streaming Services

Streaming Services

By Jaime BrooksMarch 6, 2022
Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry
Essays & Reviews

“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe

By Charlie MarkbreiterMarch 1, 2022
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Lines of Revolt

A Very Long Winter

By LiaisonsFebruary 28, 2022
War transforms everything – we are suddenly for or against armies, revolutionaries become soldiers, coalitions monopolize politics, patriotic fervor swells, and the party of order…
Shines Like Gold

Excessive Bell-Ringing

By imp kerrFebruary 28, 2022
British tourist reunited with false teeth he lost while vomiting in Spain 11 years ago
Death Panel

“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection

By Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Death PanelFebruary 22, 2022
The sociological production of the “end of the pandemic” means a wholesale rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable, but it also means the creation of countless new medically vulnerable people.
Essays & Reviews

21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes

By ML KejeraFebruary 10, 2022
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Shines Like Gold

BitMouseDAO

By imp kerrFebruary 8, 2022
People tended to reveal 26% to 30% of other people’s secrets
Shines Like Gold

Marlon Bundo

By imp kerrJanuary 18, 2022
Walmart Plots ‘Super Intense’ Crypto
Shines Like Gold

Anti-5G necklaces

By imp kerrDecember 23, 2021
the question of where memory information is stored in the brain remains unresolved
Shines Like Gold

People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs — And Defaulting

By imp kerrNovember 4, 2021
The Only Instrumental Record Ever Banned by US Radio
Essays & Reviews

Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State

By c. e.September 13, 2021
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital

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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 Liz KinnamonJune 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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