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
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Nine
She is the kind of person who understands that nothing that can flow needs to be forced
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven
The battle over email is one over which I hold a false sense of equilibrium
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Five
I am the algorithm's targeted audience for work-mode motivational posters
The Limit Does Not Exist
An interview with Marxist philosopher Joshua Moufawad-Paul about the science of revolution at a time when socialism is supposedly becoming mainstream
Death by Association
Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
Secret Catalan Poem is Out
From enactment to multi-authored text to translation to public performance to published volume
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Three
Withholding certain things from entering your body and mind and in doing so creating psychic real estate
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence
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.