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Korea Under Ceasefire

By Minju BaeMay 27, 2025
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Essays & Reviews

Dick Picky

By Madeline HoldenOctober 20, 2014
Critique My Dick Pic has convinced its proprietor that the female gaze is not homogeneous
Wiathi

#mybodymyhome (iii)

By Keguro MachariaOctober 20, 2014
Rebeka Njau’s The Sacred Seed imagines that Kenyan women can create and inhabit freedom, justice, and healing.
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Art of the Obituary: Loukanikos

By The New InquiryOctober 15, 2014
Greece's revolutionary fervor has passed with Loukanikos the riot dog
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Features

Editors' Note, Vol. 33: Dicks

By The New InquiryOctober 15, 2014
What even is a dick, anyway?
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Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, October 14, 2014

By The New InquiryOctober 14, 2014
The robots are all over your body, they are winding through the sand, they are weeping as they cook for you, the robots are singing a song of sorrow
Wiathi

red dots

By Keguro MachariaOctober 14, 2014
A trail of small red dots connect Tyna Adebowale’s body of work.
Essays & Reviews

♫ Roxane ♫

By Patricia A. MatthewOctober 14, 2014
With a bestselling book and a new site, Roxane Gay is a welcome threat to mainstream feminist sensibilities
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Thesis 2: Capitalism, No More

By Glen CoulthardOctober 13, 2014
For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die.
Zunguzungu

Where Justice Found Is

By Aaron BadyOctober 13, 2014
Whose business is it what he does in the privacy of his body?
Double Take

Mother and Child

By Teju ColeOctober 13, 2014
September 2014, @kyliejenner | Instagram Madonna Litta, c. 1490, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (See also: Fathers and Sons.)
Features

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyOctober 12, 2014
Oy with the poodles already
Uncategorized

This Week in Art Crime

By The New InquiryOctober 10, 2014
Anti-fascist graffiti, anti-anti-fascist graffiti, a subway takeover, radioactive art soup, and more this week in art crime
Essays & Reviews

Venerated Members

By Stassa EdwardsOctober 10, 2014
Europe’s history of penis worship was cast aside when the Catholic church realized Jesus’s foreskin was too potent to control.
South/South

How Can We Stop Cops From Beating and Killing

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviOctober 9, 2014
No cop > meta-cop
Wiathi

#mybodymyhome (ii)

By Keguro MachariaOctober 9, 2014
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political.

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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