AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Daughters Have Their Own Agenda
White supremacist heteropatriarchy blames black women for the "absent black father," invisibilizes the women who most suffer from that father's absence, and uses that invisibility as the foundation of male identity
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
Three of Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters, a series of poems written from 1968-71
Keeping Kayfabe
Pro wrestling plays out important narrative contradictions about competition and collusion, but academic analyses rarely get past calling it 'fake' and 'gay'
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
I am not going to kill my employers.
Blind Peer Review
Blind Peer Review: or, the tragic life of imprecise prose
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading would like to take this opportunity to call bullshit on your bullshit bullshit.
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
or, “here, let me scratch that surface for you”
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
An interactive graphic of the "dark" economy.
California Mixtape
Mixtape as pop music roadtrip across California, from Tijuana up to Eureka
Variations on a Theme: #Ferguson
Poems, quotations, and excerpts from previous struggles that frame the riots and protests engulfing the country
From a Shrinking Place
When we lose a body, we lose everything.
Transcript on a Face
Wilson the innocent ghost, Brown the guilty demon
Uncertain augury
On exiting the subway today, climbing the stairs up into Union Square, a small feather fell onto our faces. Then more. We looked up. A…
Native Regard
Some colonial women held captive by Native American tribes found the experience liberating
This Week in Art Crime
John Lennon's Wall in Prague is whitewashed, a rare manuscript company in Paris is revealed to be a giant Ponzi scheme, far right protesters attack talks about Palestinian art practice in Jerusalem, and more.
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