How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
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
Emily Warren Roebling, the Woman Who Built New York
By Jessica Jacolbe
Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
By Emma Louise Backe
Enkare, Patriarchal Power, Friends with Roses
On 10 June 2018, the 13-member team of Enkare Review, a literary journal, published a statement detailing a pattern of patriarchal abuse of power by…
Pose
Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. —Essex Hemphill, “Now We Think” For a range of reasons—taste, aptitude, exposure, politics—my academic…
What Lands On Us
An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.
A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone
From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
black (beyond negation)
I am uninterested in investigating, documenting, theorizing, and inhabiting my own negation—black negation.
Grapefruit Your Man
See to it that no parts of him go wasted
Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall
By Olivia Rosane
Women Radiobiologists and ‘Standard Man’
By Brad Bolman In the waning years of 1940, Mary Jane Cook began work in the Health Physics department of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, named…
Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
By Robert Davis Beauty and self-care has always been in conversation with contemporary politics, especially regarding race, gender, class, and privilege. While the concept of…
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike