Black mobility, as seen in the case of the Haitian migrant-slave, is not only a threat to the sovereign-national border, but to the border-as-limit to the meaning of emancipation and agency writ large. By Tea S. Troutman Borders—like the nation-states, colonies, and otherwise legible cartographies of sovereignty they demarcate,—are first and foremost anti-black. That’s it....
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Climate Crisis And The Perils of Incrementalism
Climate specialists have characterized the climate crisis as unpreventable. The planet is heating beyond repair, and yet, communities are still forced to negotiate with elected officials, begging and pleading for their lives, for a dignified chance at survival. By Kyliel Thompson In 1989, the late, but always timely, James Baldwin invoked a modification of progress...
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Water Protectors Are Risking Their Lives for Us. What Can We Do to Help Them?
The water protectors protesting Line 3 are risking their lives while their efforts go underreported by national media. Here is how to support them. The Line 3 pipeline is a controversial oil pipeline expansion currently under construction in Minnesota. The Canadian company, Enbridge, that proposed this expansion was also responsible for the largest inland oil...
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Andrew Cuomo’s Sexual Assault Allegations Follow a Long List of Abuses
Long-applauded by establishment democrats and liberals, Andrew Cuomo’s actions were consistently protested by local organizers. As Andrew Cuomo exits his post as New York governor in shame due to multiple sexual harassment allegations, I can’t think of a more perfect time to reflect on some of the horrible things he did in office. While liberals...
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Worker Exploitation, Capitalism, and The “Normal” We Can’t Return To
In a capitalist system, “normal” means worker mistreatment and exploitation, and this disproportionately impacts already marginalized groups. By Princess Avianne Charles “Normal” was considered many things but it certainly was not good enough. For many, what was considered normal was mentally and physically draining, it revoked them of their access to basic necessities and it...
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With Both COVID and Abortion Access, The Government Abandons Young People
The dignity, citizenship and humanity of young people have always been treated as unimportant or collateral in culture wars and both national and geopolitical conflicts. CW: r*pe, sexual assault By Kylie Cheung With the new school year around the corner, the Delta variant spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated, and no guidelines still on if and...
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The Biden Administration is Failing Miserably as the Housing Crisis Continues to Surge
As the COVID-19 incidence rises again, the Biden administration, with their alleged immense desire to keep people housed, are nowhere to be found. The Delta variant is surging in much of the United States, sending thousands to the hospital daily, and eviscerating the other COVID-19 variants. More than 90 million eligible people in the country...
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I Don’t Want To #StopAsianHate. I Want To End U.S. Imperialism.
The truth is that #StopAsianHate is incapable of reckoning with the historical and ongoing role of the U.S. government in perpetuating anti-Asian violence both within and outside its borders in its violent, insatiable quest for global hegemony. CW: anti-AANHPI violence, sexual violence, military and police violence against BIPOC By Elizabeth Tang I don’t like the...
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Big Tech is an Agent of Fascist Repression
Social media companies have also enhanced the technological prowess of the white supremacist carceral state in targeting Black, Brown, Indigenous and working class communities through ostensibly “colorblind” tech. CW: References to Police and Governmental Violence By Omar Zahzah If there ever was a point at which Big Tech’s supposed democratization of social relations and communications...
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The Unprotected Women Journalists of Pakistan
When women journalists refuse the grossly inappropriate advances from those in positions of power, it usually leads to a detrimental impact on their careers. This essay discusses sexual harassment, online harassment, and mentions marital r*pe by Sumaira Ashraf Rajput Many challenges test the resilience of Pakistan’s small but thriving community of women journalists, including significant...