AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
City of Brotherly Love
HBO’s Looking is an advertisement for a gentrified San Francisco masquerading as a portrait of contemporary gay life.
What Even is African Literature Anyway
Is "African Literature" a genre or a curse, a tradition or a cordoning off?
Sunday Reading
The Magic of Reading is That it Can Be Sunday Anytime
Authentic sharing
Despite its communitarian rhetoric the sharing economy actually promises consumers an escape from community
Autonomy in Kurdistan
An interview with Hilmi Aydoğdu, a leader of Kurdistan's DTK, about the defeat of ISIS, gender politics in the Rojava communes, democratic autonomy, and the future of the Kurdish movement
Dinner Party Politics
It's about running the table
This Week in Art Crime
An "art device" on a freeway is blown up by a bomb squad, a middle age man impersonates Banksy in the North of England, and more, This Week in Art Crime
Oculus Rex
Illustrations by David Tracy Figure 1: The family. Figure 2: 3D scanning of the mother. Figure 3: 3D scanning of the father. Figure 4: The…
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
Journalist Rohini Mohan and documentary filmmaker Calum Macrae sit down to discuss their respective works on the end and aftermath of the twenty-five year civil war in Sri Lanka.
You are totally unreliable Twitter
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
Marginal Returns
A small tour of independent black American film-making, past and recent past, from Amiri Baraka to Chris Rock
A Man Alone
Farewell, Rod McKuen, may your cities never be so lonesome again
In His Own Image
What makes trans men cool? Gender dysphoria is real, but so are the consequences of a minimum wage job. Why is only one sexy enough for a party?
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
Taboo disclosures: she divulges her monthly salary
Un(der)known Writers: Louise Michel
Louise Michel, the "red virgin of Montmarte", on her memories of the commune's last days
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