AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Don DeLillo Did 9/11
Surpassed by history, will the novelist put down his pen?
Sunday Reading
Statesmen in short shorts
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
"Since I’m remembering this, or making it up"--Kayombo Chingonyi
The New Inquiry Vol. 53: Aging
ageism is a way of ordering people differentially within society based on how much that society menaces them with death, imposing a relation to time, and therefore value, specific to their body type.
The Bengali Click Farmer
Factory-farmed likes rely on a global hierarchy that determines whose feelings count as real
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
"I’m pitching this technology to largely men, and they don’t understand the beauty market. I’ll send an email stating, 'We’re solving this makeup problem' and they’re like, 'There’s a problem?'"
Sunday Reading
SREXIT
African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
Nyachiro Lydia Kasese’s chapbook, Paper Dolls, is filled with scenes of smoking.
Beautiful Music
A playlist about personal appearance, heavy on the RuPaul.
Cannesibles
At this year’s top film festival, people are served
Only Women Are Named Hope
The beauty industry may exploit a potent mix of hope and desperation, but we should always want women to want more.
Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
On my 275-page attempt to dig deep into the contradictions of beauty.
Sunday Reading
horses shoes
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You: Unsteady Dreams of a “Muslim International”
By 1978, the contours of a widely shared, anti-imperialist platform had started to blur. And the radical possibilities of the figure cut by Muhammad Ali--the figure of the Muslim International--were starting to recede.
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
D.M. Aderibigbe’s poetry is scandalous.
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