The Clique Imaginary
...ambition. Whether or not a pop-culture representation of a female friend group will be categorized as a clique hinges largely on whether viewers believe they would be accepted into the...
Sunday Reading
...teachers' strike adds power to nationwide movements against inequality and racism Clock is ticking on the destruction of Chicago police misconduct files The real story of Sandra Bland "You know...
Making Again, Making Against
...African rand, Botswana pula, British pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and Australian dollar. This system hasn’t restored trust in Zimbabwe’s monetary systems, though; there is persistent...
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
"Shadow Run"
...Only empire makes this possible. Image from the 2015 USO calendar....
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...Head novel, let’s try the one that won’t confuse people. DONE. I’m giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...one in which the internet becomes a "stream," an image that conjures more of a gently babbling brook than the digital culture shock I just described. The ubiquity of the...
Bookin' It
...Schuster in 2015. Writing a book has been a longtime goal of mine, and writing this book—a comprehensive "where are we now?" survey of women (and men!) and beauty culture...
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
Bloodless Lies
...echoed much the same sentiment. Laci Green--a YouTube star and one of the “30 most influential people on the Internet,” according to Time--posted a popular video drawing favorable comparisons between...
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Seeing it Hole
...have witnessed the most important restructuring of global capitalism since WWII, important questions remain. We know that commodities flow through global logistical chains and people, without papers and with them,...
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams