The White Market
...a timid high school teacher became a regional drug kingpin over the course of a year. The point isn't that the show is unrealistic or hard to believe, but the...
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...
Pasado Compuesto
...Since last July, about 20 people have killed themselves in the face of imminent eviction. These numbers should be considered a rough estimate, due to the diversity of circumstances and...
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.
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
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...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
How to Win Tinder
...kill. Meeting IRL: wham, pow, ya dead. I “killed it” one Sunday morning when I was messaging with three women — complete strangers — simultaneously, in bed, ignoring the world...
Spring Break Forever
...no Samanthas, no Charlottes, no Mirandas Sarah Nicole Prickett Bikini, Kill Don't hate the slayer, hate the game Ayesha A. Siddiqi Booty Camp A former KIDS kid laments bad girl...
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...two roles—employing her powers to prank a man vs. to kill a man, for example—go on and on. Bewitched is the story of Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), a witch who is...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...I got” kinda way. I always say isms are systemic abuse culture and this is basically a prime example given this is the kind of uncomfortable situation you get when...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
Sunday Reading
...to understand the police dog as not simply a ‘crime fighter’, but a potent ‘technology of state power’ Miniskirts and Kangas: the Use of Culture in Constituting Postcolonial Sexuality...