Beyond the financial cost of American citizenship, the most irreversible damage comes from the immigration system’s ability to break down families and communities. By Priyanka Bansal The American immigration system is the mass commodification of bodies. It views us as investments, rather than humans. It leaves us vying for our own individual rights to security...
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We Don’t Need to Investigate ICE—We Need to Dismantle It
ICE detention centers are part of the prison industrial complex and as such have to be included in our calls for full scale abolition. TW: religious discrimination, violence, ICE In late August, Muslim advocacy groups revealed that Muslim ICE detainees had been struggling with expired or rotten halal meals for two years. TWO YEARS! Because...
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Abolition Cannot Wait: Visions For Transformation and Radical World-Building
Abolition is the practice of building a radical vision for the end of imperialism, cis heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy—and it is very possible. By K. Agbebiyi, Sarah T. Hamid, Rachel Kuo, and Mon Mohapatra Abolition means a world with zero police, a world without prisons, and a world where we build life-sustaining systems of...
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Jia Tolentino’s Defense of Her Parents Ignores The Truths Of The Teachers They Allegedly Harmed
Jia Tolentino’s blog post in defense of her parents failed to address the very real and many testimonies of teachers who were harmed by their actions. Last week, Jia Tolentino, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the acclaimed novel, Trick Mirror, wrote of her parents’ involvement in an agency to relocate Filipino...
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Looking Beyond Kamala Harris’ Identity And At Her Political Actions
Kamala’s history demonstrates her priorities: sponsoring the corporate elite, locking up BIPOC, endangering trans folx and persecuting sex workers. By Gloria Oladipo Oh happy day, oh happy day, Kamala “Cop” Harris has gone away! On Tuesday, news broke that Kamala Harris was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, officially ending her campaign a day...
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Pete Buttigieg Performs Solidarity And Cuts Us In The Dark
Buttigieg, like the politicians before and after him, will never transgress or bring any substantial change to a system that he benefits from. Pete Buttigieg is considered a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, but his politics are a fallacy. Buttigieg is the specific brand of white person that I have come to abhor,...
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Problematic Halloween Costumes Aren’t A Mistake, They’re An Exertion of Power
Wearing a problematic costume is a refusal to recognize the pain of someone else’s experience, and a refusal to acknowledge the harm people can do. By Gloria Oladipo Some people just don’t want to learn. Some people don’t care. Despite it being the year of 2019, hoards of problematic individuals are still dressing in costumes...
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Muslim Americans Don’t Have The Privilege of Forgetting Bush’s Crimes
By sanitizing George W. Bush into a harmless old man with different political views, we dishonor the people who lived through or died by the injustices that he caused. CW: war, torture, death, racism, Islamophobia I envy those with the privilege to forget, to sanitize the horrors of the past. I can’t imagine the comfort...
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El Paso Shooter Represents White America And Its White Supremacist, Settler-Colonial Roots
The El Paso shooting should spur white Americans to reckon with their legacy of violence. Without it, white nationalists will continue onwards. Another day, another mass shooting. 22 people massacred in the crowded Walmart of Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, before which the shooter had released an anti-Latinx manifesto that alluded to a...
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Don’t Mourn DACA Just Yet
We must refuse to uphold the colonial logic underlying claims of legal presence and borders. By Natascha Uhlmann The Trump administration’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is morally repugnant. This much is self evident — no human being is illegal, period. But we can do better. DACA granted a sense of normalcy to...