Can the nation-state serve social justice? Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others.Plus Leila Farsakh on ...

Can the nation-state serve social justice? Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others.Plus Leila Farsakh on ...

Nick Martino is a writer and teacher from Milwaukee. He is the author of the forthcoming Scrap Book, which was selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2024 Alice James Award.

Preorder now. Issue ships in late May. Can the nation-state serve social justice? Should social movements work inside or outside the state? What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?

This song of them breaking again.

Getting schooled has a way of happening in many places all at once. She was bad with money and had no patience for poems.

It has been thirty years since Lisa Duggan issued a challenge to fellow scholars in the emerging discipline of queer theory. “The time has come,” she wrote, “to think about queering the state.” A ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...

Can the nation-state serve social justice? Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others.Plus Leila Farsakh on ...

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Ari Ne’eman co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006 and served as its executive director from 2006 to 2016. From 2010 to 2015, he served as one of President Obama’s appointees to the ...

laughing at how strong he still is. When the darkness is almost complete, he sits up & recites his last poem. When I lived, it begins, in Shuj’aiyya, in Gaza, when I took the train to Jerusalem & back ...