Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...One son, a 12-year-old, refused. “If you kill me, kill me,” he told the soldiers, as his mother remembers it. “But I will not eat a part of my mother.”...
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
...haunt but cripple and kill those whose lives are still determined, not in an "ex" but in a present way, by what was and is the legacy of empire, but...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Iranophobia 2.0
...Iranian had an identical experience. Zack Jafarzadeh tried to buy an iPhone at a mall in Atlanta: I would say if you're trying to buy an iPhone, don't tell them...
Hollywood's Drug War
...-- a murderer -- is one of the good guys. We watch the formerly flush assassin try to feed his family on beans and salsa because the Salvadoran justice system...
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
Sunday Reading
...Before the Quake ReclaimUC: "You may accuse us of losing faith in the university; it never had faith in us." The work of humanities Who's afraid of Occupy? The John...
Sunday Reading
...Life is One of Mourning Black Churches are Burning in America Again Impact of US Housing Crisis on Racial Wealth Gap Across Generations ReclaimUC: In the regents we trust? How...
Sunday Reading
...Mystery Man Arrives (1948) Glubb Pasha Flies Home (1956) ReclaimUC: They want to raise tuition again "What are elite college sports except massive fund-raising exercises?" Organizing within our changing profession...
Letters of Recommendation: C. Wright Mills to Fidel Castro
...to get some young professors for him, to teach there and possibly to work with INRA. I have now found one such man and wish to recommend him as strongly...
African Poetry: Safia Elhillo
...tried for romance & had daughters full of all the wrong language Elhillo’s poems speak to themselves, and about themselves, recognising their own limits: “daughters full of all the wrong...
Sunday Reading
...Nostalia-tinted 8-bit animated gifs of everyday Japanese life ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley drops health coverage for families "UAW 2865 is the first local to explicitly call for disassociation between police unions...
Sunday Reading
...or congenitally disabled subjects. ReclaimUC: Academic labour and the capitalist university Washington state legislature passes budget *cutting* tuition at public universities "I am, in very real ways, a primary source,...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...the music was her choice. That’s always been the rules. In a properly perverse pick, she had selected Yolanda be Cool and DCUP’s “We No Speak Americano (Extended Death Match...
No Man Righteous
...emptiness that derives from a culture that sends perennial mixed messages about “doing your own thing” and “being cool.” These slangy phrases vulgarize the ideal of self-realization, which consumerism reduces...