The Road to Garissa
...must teach thoughtful Kenyans and others that the largest number of victims of al-Shabab are not Kenyans, Ugandans, or others, but Somalis in Somalia. Al-shabab has imposed an incredible tyranny...
Erasing Black AIDS Histories
...light that the writer and activist Kenyon Farrow was asked to consult on the exhibition years ago. He had suggested the curators look into House and Ball culture, the work...
The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy
...tried to escape and, when the man caught up with her, she stabbed him with a paring knife. No one challenged the prosecution of a low-income Creek woman for defending...
Sunday Reading
...adjuncts will be hurt as total privatization looms. Roomba for hospital disinfection. In Soviet Reclaim UC, everything occupies you. ReclaimUC: "The University [of California] lost a lawsuit against students and...
When Lovers Die
...aged frame; he feeds and cleans her with an admirable minimum of expressed frustration; he sings children’s songs with her so she can enjoy her last fragmented moments of lucidity....
Patriots
...a new, humane workplace culture through office dogs. In “Capitalism With a Fluffy Face,” Jonny Bunning discusses how “dogs on the job” are just another perk, implicated in a larger...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Coming to America
...we didn’t need their money and benefits. But we did. There was no amount of oils, incense, or music he could sell that would provide what the State provided. That...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...When the paranodal space is freed from the distributed network diagram, all of these sentiments and feelings of Meek’s music really coming rushing in for me. It is Meek’s haunting...
Sunday Reading
...this list of synonyms for 'businessman' even longer." ReclaimUC: Severing UC's ties to the fossil fuel industry Department of African American Studies statement on Steven Salaita, Michael Brown, and Ferguson,...
Using Life: Instructions for Play
...contemporary Egypt: the perfidy of friends and lovers, the “kitschification” of culture, and, most importantly, conspiracies wrought in the realm of architecture and urban planning. The book is a play,...
Whose Streets?
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
Texas Stands With Gaza
...it. I use W.E.B. DuBois’ words, there, because he describes double-consciousness in terms which fit the experience, one of the many places where DuBois will teach you more about being...
The Novelty of African Poetry
...human societies and culture, the word “poetry” suffices to gesture towards the multitudinous forms of art-in-language that every culture used and uses to give form and meaning to the world....
You Are Too Much
...woman has absorbed the lessons of pop music without irony, in the atmosphere of total surveillance exemplified by Facebook and the NSA, and now believes that love should be conducted...
Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
...the market; compiling songs into albums has become more nostalgic than necessary or economically warranted. And I still vividly remember throwing out my entire CD collection — for me, a...