White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
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...
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.”...
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
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.
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
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...
Superman/Everyman
...and a teacher of self-seeking and individual right living. Kaufmann’s translations of Nietzsche’s major works, complete with their didactic footnoting, are still ubiquitous in affordable paperback editions in America today,...
Extremists in The Mainstream
...this reason, some readers might not see Goliath as being focused on the mainstream, and I even found myself thinking on occasion: “Israelis don’t always come off as this rabid.”...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
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....
#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....