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Bombing Iran: Crude Oil Gulf Extraction and Gulf South Petro-Devastation
The same logic that organizes the extraction of the Global South organizes the domestic South. The plantation did not disappear, and the Middle Passage lives on.
The AI Myth of Solomon Fairfax, the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston
The increasing prevalence and believability of AI slop, the censorship of Black history, and the rise of anti-intellectualism have left us in a perfect storm of susceptibility to these types of frauds.
Mobtown Redux: Remembering Logan Hullinger
There is nothing else left for the masses to do except escalate our resistance to this genocidal entanglement.
William Hampton makes sure Alabama's Black history isn't forgotten
Hampton went to the Huntsville-Madison County Library archives to research his history and was shocked to see that it was incomplete. Beyond the absence of his own family's history, he didn't see anyone who looked like him in the archives, he just saw white changemakers.
Bronzie De'Marco on persevering through transphobia, HIV, and loss
Bronzie De'Marco calls herself a legendary drag queen, and it's hard to disagree with her. She's been twirling on the stage for 55 years and refuses to let time stop her.
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.