For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
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
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Vol. 68 Editor’s Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
kburd: Caliban Responds
KBURD: Short for “K but u rong doe“. Used when you know arguing is pointless but you need them to know they’re still wrong. —Urban…
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
By Erica Eisen
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
By Kaitlin Stack-Whitney
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Staging an Epidemic
What is AIDS to you?
Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez
Salivary glands allow us to produce enough saliva to spit, which can be a defense mechanism against the dangers of poisoning, an expression of outrage, a sexual practice, even lubricant
Triple-Decker Weekly, 143
How do we navigate a deeply structured world? Why are you reading this sentence first - and did you actually look at the fifth word?
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
All Out to Block the Alt-Right
Print out these posters and organize a "Stop the Hate" event in your city
Africa : Queer : Anthropology
Of the many ways to narrate the emergence of queer studies, I most like Tim Dean’s claim that Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex: Notes for a…