Godskin
By: CL Hellisen
Tallying the human suffering at the hands of the European border regime
10 years after the so-called long summer of migration, the deadliness of the European border regime is back in full swing.
The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.
Congresswoman tracks down U.S. citizen children detained at Ferndale facility
U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon’s 3rd congressional district spoke outside of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility on July 11, in Ferndale, Wash. She spoke out against the…
Surgical Center staff demand to see an arrest warrant and ID as an ICE agent tried to detain a landscaper.
Source: Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT
Before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee made a name for abstraction in visual art, another artist had already beat them to their discovery. But until very recently, her name was absent…
Joop Sanders, last of the original Abstract Expressionists
The Dutch-American painter Joop Sanders was the last surviving member of the Abstract Expressionist movement when he died in 2023 at the age of 101. Now, his granddaughter Isca Greenfield-Sanders…
When Letting Your Mind Wander Helps You Learn
Zoning out reveals hidden patterns in tasks
Animals Expend 76,000 Gigajoules of Energy Sculpting Our Planet Every Year
This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an underestimate
Injured Skin Cells Fire like Neurons to ‘Scream’ for Help
Our skin’s epithelial cells send electrical signals like neurons to cry out for help