AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Bad Subjects
One, astrology; two, dreams
What Color Lipstick Is Your SOUL?
When the beauty industry tries to get cute with its product naming, things can get ugly.
Better Than Sex
Is mascara better than sex? Is cake better than sex? Is snow better than sex? Is kidnapping the son of a Cadillac dealer better than sex?
The Black Movement to Come
A vibrant vision of radically inclusive blackness resolves when movement leaders imagine freedom and autonomy for black people of all marginalized identities and not just for themselves
Sunday Reading
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African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
I linger at the quotidian to insist that the African imagination considers livability and shareability.
Bad Housekeeping
Smart houses may usher in a leisurely world for some and more work for others
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
Do hemorrhoids dream of deceptive meat?
Sunday Reading
Calling, Promoting, Urging
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
Black poetries seek and create forms to imagine and render dispossession.
Making Black Lives Matter in the Mall of America
When the banality of workplace organizing is the best weapon against the banality of evil
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
A Roundtable on Marie NDiaye's Ladivine
Sunday Reading
Slate Says The New Inquiry Says That’s Ridiculous. Sad!
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
That and this
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
"This is how you love in war"--Gbenga Adesina
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