By Sarah Brouillette NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 novel, We Need New Names, follows a gang of kids whose families have been… Read more On the African literary hustle
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Privacy, Finance Capitalism, and the Question of Reproductive Futurity
By Tom Syverson In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a religious fundamentalist counter-revolution has taken power. The regime of Gilead… Read more Privacy, Finance Capitalism, and the Question of Reproductive Futurity
Two years in…
This month marks Blind Field’s second anniversary as an online journal dedicated to thinking about the politics of culture, and… Read more Two years in…
Abolitionism in the 21st Century: From Communisation as the End of Sex, to Revolutionary Transfeminism
By Jules Joanne Gleeson Gender abolition was a contentious point of discussion among the communisation current in the early 2010s.… Read more Abolitionism in the 21st Century: From Communisation as the End of Sex, to Revolutionary Transfeminism
Historicizing White Nostalgia: Race and American Fordism
By Laura Renata Martin The figure of the white blue collar worker looms large in recent left efforts to make… Read more Historicizing White Nostalgia: Race and American Fordism
The Call for Gender Abolition: From Materialist Lesbianism to Gay Communism
By Jules Joanne Gleeson Here in Vienna, there are two permanent feminist centres: the Frauen Zentrum (Womens’ Centre), and Frauen… Read more The Call for Gender Abolition: From Materialist Lesbianism to Gay Communism
Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
By Kenan Behzat Sharpe “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake… Read more Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
Interview with Zaynê Akyol on her film Gulîstan Land of Roses
By Anna De Filippi Posters for Zaynê Akyol’s documentary film Gulîstan, Land of Roses—depicting a PKK woman fighter’s profile against… Read more Interview with Zaynê Akyol on her film Gulîstan Land of Roses
THE BLACK BLOC WHICH WAS NOT
By Jose Rosales In the 1 July copy of the German newspaper Taz one finds the statements of two leftist… Read more THE BLACK BLOC WHICH WAS NOT
Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits
By Johanna Isaacson Towards the end of the film The Fits (2015) we see the protagonist, Toni (Royalty Hightower) walking… Read more Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits
