Shelter
...sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he described English people working in Scotland as either “settlers” or...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
Room 406
...brother, go to Tadmor Prison with orders to kill every prisoner, whether they are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or not. The commandos arrive at dawn. The prisoners are in...
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...we have to create a world that won’t kill us, and avoid the ones that will. After all, The Apprentice was great reality TV until it became reality. ...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go...
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
#mybodymyhome (i)
...dismissed as “minor,” “trivial,” “irrelevant.” Hon. Duale’s colleague, Hon. Mulu, argued, “in the Kamba culture, there is nothing like sexual harassment when you are dealing with a wife or husband....
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Pasado Compuesto
...Dadi Dreucol (con On_ly), No future, Valencia 2012. All images come from the blog Escrito en la pared. A new social epidemic is gripping Spain: the foreclosure suicide...
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
The White Market
...supremacist glee. The Mexicans can wave their skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room....
System Failures
...of the unprecedented connection which allows soldiers based in the United States to survey, track, and kill targets in countries on the other side of the planet, no exchange seems...
Labor Pains
...for surrogates to withdraw labor, to suspend production is to kill. The life-or-death entanglements of conception, birth, and kinship are thus a partially unenclosed commons, a source of joy yet...
Sunday Reading
...Decolonisation of the Mind Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why Why We’re in a New Gilded Age Obituary of a culture Draw Your Professor ...
Family Planning
...“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder...