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Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation 

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Shines Like Gold

An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang

By imp kerrOctober 13, 2020
Parrots removed from UK wildlife park after they started swearing at customers
The Epic Present

Episode One: All The Factory’s A Stage

By Aditya BahlOctober 5, 2020
But it was not capitalism alone that determined the workers’ social life both in the factory and the colony.
Shines Like Gold

The Art of the One-Word Poem

By imp kerrSeptember 20, 2020
When we lose weight, where does it go?
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Pandemic

Vol. 75 | September 2021

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Lines of Revolt

The Revolution Post-Explosion

By LiaisonsSeptember 11, 2020
A Letter From Beirut
Lines of Revolt

Warning

By LiaisonsSeptember 9, 2020
A Letter From Minneapolis
Features

Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian

By Hil MalatinoAugust 31, 2020
For María Lugones
Features

Woman With a Weapon-Camera

By Yasmina PriceAugust 27, 2020
On the work of Sarah Maldoror
The Epic Present

First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

By Aditya BahlAugust 25, 2020
Hindu nationalism is the modality in which the crisis of postcolonial capitalism is lived.
Shines Like Gold

Dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordination

By imp kerrAugust 24, 2020
Lego piece falls out of New Zealand boy's nose after being stuck for two years
Essays & Reviews

The Contagious Assembly

By Alex BenhamAugust 24, 2020
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
Shines Like Gold

The second wave began in the second half of August

By imp kerrAugust 16, 2020
The most powerful predictors of relationship quality are the characteristics of the relationship itself — the life dynamic you build with your person
The Austerity Kitchen

Lunch on the Grass

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 4, 2020
Much of what made life pleasurable is now gone. We must seek out what remains.
The Austerity Kitchen

Bitter Buttons and Other Backyard Weeds

By Christine BaumgarthuberJuly 28, 2020
Tansy is a lovely plant in its way — enough, anyway, to tempt me to take some of it home. But then I remind myself of its checkered past.
Essays & Reviews

Life During Wartime

By Ju-Hyun ParkJuly 27, 2020
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
Essays & Reviews

Abolition is Not a Suburb

By Tamara K. NopperJuly 16, 2020
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Uncategorized

Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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