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
The Diasporist of Drohobycz
A new translation of Bruno Schulz’s stories reveals the local in vitalist understandings of diaspora that do not need to claim a Jewish state to flourish
Triple-Decker Weekly, 142
The Game is a mental game where the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss.
Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Solidarity with Grad Workers
Who is afraid of the big bad graduate student union?
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
New Zealand’s Dragon Lady of Paleontology
By Nathan Kapoor
Kate Sheppard and the Science of Suffrage in New Zealand
By Kate Sheppard
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
I dwell frequently on the notion that the male body expands and the female body contracts in public space
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
It’s beginning to be impossible to write about how impossible it is to write about love
Call in campaign to #DropJ20 #DefendJ20
On Dec. 21 2017, a jury returned a not-guilty verdict to the first six defendants in the J20 case, where hundreds of people were arrested…
Factory Made
A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls