AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Bitter Buttons and Other Backyard Weeds
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.
Life During Wartime
Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War
Abolition is Not a Suburb
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability
I’m So Into Avoiding You
An email exchange between Grace Lavery and Charlie Markbreiter
Fame Shame
Cyrus Dunham’s debut memoir, A Year Without A Name, tells the story of his gender transition. He slowly allows himself to embody a gender other…
Push It to No Limits
How to escape the cop kettles on the streets and in our spirits
Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Enemies of the People
The point of all things should be their dissolution
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 19, 2020)
A deep dive into the causes of food shortages, food handling myths debunked, and 8 million pints of beer poured down the drain.
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