Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Sunday Reading
Adopted Iraqi war anchor orphans ghostwrite all of Jonathan Franzen's novels
My Father’s Sign
When a father dies, you are left with at once so many stories and never enough.
Daddy O
Gay porn works out the complexities of filiation and paternity the hardcore way
No Money in Movies
In our flat content world, what becomes of classic filmmakers who haven't died yet? And will anyone replace them?
The Bod of the Father
The dad bod dad is not so much a person as an organizational principle of patriarchy
Sunday Reading
Shade balls, obviously
The Paradox of Progress
In Jurassic World, all modern concepts have merged with their opposite, so nothing is able to change
She Mad and She Magic
Black women's anger towards supposed allies is never taken for the self-preserving force it is
Do the Robot
The threat of automation is a good way to force workers to "love what they do"
The Monster and the State
It’s easier to condemn a hate crime than a war crime, especially on occupied land.
You Deserve It, Sweetie
Getting paid for sex upholds the fantasy of unconditional love by masking the very real conditions of lovability
Coming to America
On becoming African-American
Sunday Reading
You may not care about Sunday Reading, but Sunday Reading cares about you.
"The Sacred Mattress"
"The fortress-mansion has high walls built of ashblack-brown volcanic stone, the same stone cut into large bricks for the heavy, fortified-hacienda-style architecture inside, which included…
Notes toward a reconceptualization of Boney M.'s "Daddy Cool"
Is Daddy Cool anti-Oedipus?
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