“It’s called Black Planet,” Marcus riffed, keeping his fury contained. “It’s nothing special. It’s about a fucking Black ...

Death was all around him. Maybe you know what this is like, hearing music overlaid with rain. They stop competing after a ...

My dead mother called me to say she knew she killed me a long time ago but look how well I’m doing now. I wanted to tell the department admin she ruined my life by giving out my cell number, but of ...

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During a virtual convening hosted last year by Interrupting Criminalization, the organization we cofounded in 2018, abolitionist scholar and geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore offered a provocation ...

Táíwò asks whether nation-states can be corralled to create a green global economy—a starting point, he argues, for anything else that might improve the lives of the world’s poor. As an economist and ...

In its broad strokes, I find Táíwò’s exhortation—“first dethrone fossil capital; then transform the world”—compelling. Fossil capital stands in the way of all manner of progressive priorities—both ...

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Tracy Abeyta has been published by Hobart Pulp, the Brooklyn Review, Milvia Street, Diagram, and Rabid Oak. Pursuing an MFA in fiction from the Institute for American Indian Arts, she teaches ...

These responses raise challenging and clarifying points. A major fault line in the discussion concerns the political scale—and thus the set of actors—we should focus our attention on in order to make ...