The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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 Origins of American Women’s Exercise
By Jess Libow
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology
By Tamara Fernando
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
By Sam Muka
Encore
A Second Letter from Paris
The Real Lolita?
Sarah Weinman’s new book questions the responsibility of fiction to fact
Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma
By Kate Sheppard
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
By Sam Muka
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
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
Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Dr. Jane C. Wright and the Making of Modern Oncology
By Victoria Forster and Elizabeth Wayne