Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...is about what she has come to represent: the sympathetic victim of internet mob violence, a white woman who said something that some people took to be racist, but who...
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...which so many white people make of themselves that, if we weren’t so reliably constant in doing it over and over again, it would be tragic. I am Charlie, in...
Real Human Being
...A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality. The past year’s high...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...their crap. That’s something the cold detached American dating scene does not offer women who are too far from white. We are more likely to be dragged along for years...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...by Ken Liu and is set in Beijing. Best new writer went to Andy Wier, who wrote The Martian. Is everything great? In 2015 authors, especially white authors, protested against...
Midwest
...rituals of femininity. The girls at the dormitory, exchanging the same mythical items of clothing. The child narrator walking down the highway to the mall— flaneuse of the interstate! —sifting...
Made for China
...As US audiences tire of big budget spectacle, Hollywood designs its blockbuster product for the ever-expanding Chinese market It matters that Superman is a white man, even though he’s...
Theory Porn
...being fucked for the first time. White virgins, Western virgins seduced by a beautiful and perverted Tanzanian musician. Then, for this totally spectacular ending, Gayl filmed the girls getting beat...
American History
...More movement brought large numbers of Indians into places associated with the modernity and mobility of white citizens: shopping centers and highways. These actions forced people who might not have...
White Collar Crime Risk Zones
...The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View the project online here....
Us and Them
...realism It’s easy to forget that White Teeth is about terrorism, even though Millat Iqubal’s botched jihadist plot ends the book. The novel has so much else going on in...
The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...gap in between. Artist and writer Zahira Kelly is one of them, throwing out daily analyses of white supremacy and ideology as casually as she discusses fashion. In her second...
An Arbitrary Number of Theses on Donald’s Trump
...before he left the presidency—having worked hard to modernize the United States’ navy and make it equivalent to the imperial British navy—he sent “The Great White Fleet” on a world...