Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
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
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
To turn the U.S.-Mexico border into the Border, America had to erase its Caribbean history
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
Hunger can feel like a prolonged period of waiting, thirst feels like giving up
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
No subject should be too low for a painting or a poem
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eleven
My body is hungry—desperate—for sleep. O sleep!
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
Ramadan Diaries, Day Nine
My brain, aware of the caffeine and calories it simply isn't getting, foments independent declarations
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
Ramadan Diaries, Day Seven
The nation-state, where everything is true and nothing hurts
Mommie Dearest
Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Ramadan Diaries, Day Six
No one appears to come out and say that the three-meal-a-day diet is a historical accompaniment of capitalism
Triple-Decker Weekly, 145
Parents forget newborn baby in taxi on way home from hospital
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
I use the song until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I’ll feed on it again
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond