"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...they’ve been robbed of in these stored all these years. “The people here tried legal means of getting help, and they got nothing. They begged the white people to listen...
Making It: A Miseducation
...day that one teacher, Dr. Bond—a fiery preacher known in our school for his flamboyant suits, hallway hemlocks, and constant command for us to “pull up our pants”—asked me a...
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...distort family values.” She writes as if those family values — the same ones that have emerged from patriarchal culture and skewed emotional labor along gender lines — reflect eternal...
While I Was Away
...a year ago, I tried to return to romance novels written in the 1970s and early 1980s, and I couldn't. They were full of rape. It was a vernacular. I...
Noshing with Nomads
...even though it will mean lugging some sixty cartons of them through high summer’s swelter. I tried in the past to break myself of this packrat-ish impulse, lest it end...
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
Variations on a Theme: Forgotten Terrorisms
...1870s, was not tried out in France. Instead, assassination became the principal weapon of revenge against the bourgeoisie and the figureheads of the State. The first wave of attempted assassinations...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...an enormous, prop comedy cordless telephone. And it feels like one, slightly pebbled, integral. But it cannot be looked through. There are no round places to stick your eyes in...
Commuter Riots
...NFL commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, tried to replicate bucolic Sunday tailgate services at Arrowhead across the league, fueling a few fiery championship street riots in the process. A couple years after...
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....