Let Us Explain: Body Fascism
Body fascism is not a relic of the past. It is an active feature of modern imperial regimes. Every time a government decides whose body must be protected and whose body must be erased for the sake of national imagery, this is body fascism.
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Southern politics
How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers
Lynne does this work without compensation. She receives no sentence reduction, no credits toward parole consideration. The prison extracts her labor and her psychological well-being while offering nothing in return except the brittle satisfaction of knowing she may have kept someone alive for one more shift.
Arts & Soul
To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life
Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record.
Race & Place
Why are we letting the drug warriors win?
The silence is deafening: Bates doesn't care about diversion or justice. He simply cares about numbers, even if those numbers come from helping lock up drug users and other vulnerable populations.
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