Chaos Will Set You Free
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a novel that embraces its own instability to narrate the palimpsests of violence that bind the U.S. and the Philippines
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
Pytipanna (Links for the Week of August 11, 2019)
Lunchroom memes, the science behind gluten intolerance, and dismal airport food — all in this week’s linkpile.
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Charles Manson Was a Republican
Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 4, 2019)
Image: Boston Public Library Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” Welcome to food desert America, where some 70 percent of food is “ultra-processed“ In…
Fight for the Future
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 28, 2019)
Image: A Neapolitan Watermelon Shop from the Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” If you’re worried about controlling your…
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
Dinner with Lydia Maria Child
I began the Dinner series in 2016 with “Dinner with Caligula.” Much to my shock and sorrow, Caligula did show up to dinner. But history…
The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 21, 2019)
Image: Boston Public Library Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” Black-owned restaurants are gaining in numbers and popularity One meatless slideróor even a…
Vol. 71 Editors’ Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
Image from Geo H. Gennawey, Rocky Point, R.I., “Shore Dinner, Rocky Point, R.I.” (1935). Rhode Island Postcards. 273. Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.”…
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 7)
Image from the Ice Cream Trade Journal (1922) Pyttipanna: Swedish for “small pieces in a pan.” Greening “food desert” communities, one school at a time…