AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Dear Marooned Alien Princess, Where is the line drawn between appreciation and cultural appropriation? Why can’t I just enjoy things from other cultures? Isn’t denying…
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Survival in Audre Lorde
The word “survival” felt bone-deep familiar when I encountered it in Audre Lorde’s writing
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Day Residue
On Danzy Senna's NEW PEOPLE.
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Pro Anti
Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Unacceptable Bodies
By Anna Reser
The Cost of Disclosure: On Being a Woman with a Disability in Geophysics
By Jesse Shanahan
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Fire This Time?
Kenya’s Referendum on Public Values
Can the Subaltern Vote?
In 2016, the Democratic Party started seeing Muslims as voters, but that’s not necessarily a favor
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