Gentrification is Coming for the Internet
Big Tech is gentrifying not only urban spaces but digital ones, too. Communications professor Jessa Lingel explains how.
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Framing Asian Suffering in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim
Political science scholar Claire Jean Kim outlines how COVID-19 came to be racialized and discusses the implications of foregrounding anti-Asian harassment and violence in an anti-Black society.
It’s Time to Decolonize the Great Lakes
Caitlin Joseph argues that Indigenous water governance practices are necessary to creating a more equitable Great Lakes.
Faculty Favorites: Books for a Return to Campus
Seven scholars from a variety of fields recommend new books and classics to read this fall, with topics ranging from Indigenous resistance and Afrofuturism to Irish coastal history and nineteenth-century surfing.
A Map of Point Reyes
In this genre-queer meditation on mapping, Tori McCandless interrogates the colonial ramifications of the map while exploring processes of embodied and intertextual mapping that account for the interwoven histories of California’s coast. They ask: how can we know a place through touch and text?
Surviving the Pandemic in Prison
Prisoner and abolitionist Lawrence Jenkins describes the struggles of being incarcerated during COVID-19 and the heightened risk, fear, and racial violence of life on the inside.
Living with Floods: A Conversation with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
The Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin experienced historic flood events in late summer 2018. To commemorate the third anniversary of these floods, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke shares how the oral history project Stories from the Flood helped with community healing in the aftermath.
The Young Lords’ Fight for Environmental Justice in NYC
Erik Wallenberg reviews Johanna Fernández’s award-winning book on the Young Lords and connects their political project of securing garbage pickup and medical access for New Yorkers to the broader environmental justice movement.
Zoom Somatics in Four Poems
Inspired by shared Zoom somatics and careful attention to spiders and lichen, Petra Kuppers offers a collection of four poems about the experience of being with others online amid isolation.
Reckoning With Deep Time For A Livable World
Katie Mummah reviews Vincent Ialenti’s book Deep Time Reckoning, which uses lessons from nuclear waste disposal to show how long-term thinking can help us and the planet.
