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Prisons and Profit: Rebuilding Injustice 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina
One might suspect that Hurricane Katrina would be a wake-up call. The unconscionable actions during and after the storm could not go unnoticed, and their occurrence would undoubtedly bring additional scrutiny. Which it did. So, why is the prison still considered among the worst in the nation?
I Saw the Matrix Glow
Both of these weird, 90s-core, sci-fi flicks—one bombastic and cerebral, the other more quiet and cryptic—offer themselves as emblems for queer identity, repression, and awakening.
Blurring the Binary: The erasure of intersex people inside the carceral system
I'm a woman, a female, and have XX chromosomes, which are typically expected or associated with other females. However, I was born intersex and because of that, I'm forced to be housed with men in a men's prison.
Astrodome Feb 23, 2001
Even when the song competes my cotton candy pink regale keeps up the sugar stays The airs gone on the latest train to Georgia.
Beyond the Pavement: Inside Texas's unincorporated colonias
Pastor Mendoza has gone to court to push for paved streets. The work still hasn't happened. He puts the high stakes in stark terms, recounting that a sick boy died before an ambulance could reach him about a year ago, delayed by the conditions of the roads. Still, Mendoza clings to an optimistic long view,…
The Road Ahead: On Inheritance and Dignity in Alabama
You can walk through Alabama the way you walk through a museum: eyes forward, curious, reassured by labels. Names that sound like history book chapters—Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery—offer a neat promise that the country's history of racialized violence belongs to the past tense, and that all that remains is the work of remembering. I arrived with…