A new book plumbs the history and ideology behind the State Department’s propaganda
efforts in Middle Eastern media, and the resistance it provokes.
A politics of holding water is central to struggles around kinmaking, including reproductive justice, migrant solidarity, and indigenous sovereignty
Slavery suffuses our present-day environment in an afterlife called the weather. An excerpt from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, November 2016.
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility–they might become our neighbor
In an exclusive conversation, surveillance scholar Simone Browne and artist Zach Blas critique various forms of “control diagrams” and imagine a new commons in the space between the Internet’s network nodes.<
We are being seen with ever greater resolution, even while the systems around us increasingly disappear into the background.
Chelsea Manning’s DNA helped visualize her identity despite the erasure of incarceration
Feminist anthropology began in the 1970s not merely to promote a wider paradigm shift in ethnographic research, but to galvanize the discipline into remodeling how anthropologists functioned in the academy and the field.
Discrimination toward women in the medical arts can be traced back to the story of Agnodice.
The idea that we can spend attention is a form of control
Whiteness is a thing because white supremacists needed a name for their violent subjugation of others, and so they gave it one. In this way, whiteness is a uniquely virulent and pathological form of social identity. It cannot survive its loss of supremacy; it cannot abide competition or mixture or “impurity.”
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