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Review

Posted inARTS & SOUL

The perfect present for my Black and trans inner child

by Kelsey Smoot August 25, 2023August 24, 2023

Despite winning the Stonewall Book Award, the book has landed on banned lists across the nation. "It is terrifying to think that a story about a kid who is loved by his parents for being exactly himself could be painted as menacing."

Posted inARTS & SOUL

Schistostega pennata: grief & the luminous land

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 1, 2023August 4, 2023
Review: The Barbie movie punts meaningful concepts into the void and leaves us with nothing. But maybe that’s the point.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Come on Barbie, give us nothing!

by Virginia Walcott July 27, 2023July 27, 2023
An abolitionist review of the Barbie movie's imaginative universe serves as a reminder that systemic oppression can indeed be destroyed.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Barbie: Pretty Police

by Eteng Ettah July 27, 2023July 27, 2023
"What Things Cost: An anthology for the people." Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul. Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

An anthology for people over capitalism

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
An artist's tribute to painter Duniyana Al-Amoor, killed in her room in Gaza at age 22.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Art Under Aggression

by Malak Mattar June 22, 2023September 27, 2023
The cover of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, "motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life."
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Altars for the alter-life

by mónica teresa ortiz May 16, 2023May 15, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'

by Julie Poole May 11, 2023May 16, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023April 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide, Part II: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 21, 2023April 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Night Court: New(ish) Sitcom, Same Copaganda

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 19, 2023April 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023April 19, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reflections on Reproductive Justice and the Captive Maternal

by Breya M. Johnson April 12, 2023April 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023April 12, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023April 12, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023April 12, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023April 12, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023March 22, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Everything (Queer) Everywhere All At Once

by mónica teresa ortiz March 10, 2023March 9, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolishing the Black Superhero Complex: From Black Panther to MLK

by Bria Massey March 2, 2023April 28, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The romantic comedies convincing you to fall in love with the police

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg February 14, 2023February 14, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Grief and Love, Outside the Changes

by Julian Reid February 10, 2023August 9, 2023
Abolition on TV
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolition on TV: Pop Justice Wrapped

by Eteng Ettah January 19, 2023January 20, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Why your new diet is antiblack

by Ko Bragg and Da'Shaun Harrison January 3, 2023January 3, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

There are 'Stranger Things' than abolition, but the show won't go there.

by Endria Isa Richardson December 22, 2022December 22, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In the soil, in the sound: Houston's Jamal Cyrus gets to the root of Southern Black aesthetics

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 17, 2022November 17, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How to do away with copaganda: Three Emmy-nominated shows to watch with an abolitionist lens

by Kaitlin Fontana, Rebecca Bodenheimer and Naa Djama Attoh-Okine September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Only Murders in the Building exemplifies the lies in 'true' crime

by Adedoyin "Ade" Adeniji and Bria Massey September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

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