Red Bra, Anti-Archive; Object No. 8, Brownsville, Texas, Found 2008
By Barbara Sostaita • 1 day ago

These objects put a face on the migration crisis

I recently attended an exhibition featuring the work of University of North Carolina professor and visual artist Susan Harbage Page. Since 2007, Page has made yearly pilgrimages to the Texas – Mexico border to collect objects left behind by migrants, which she has now compiled into her exhibit, Objects from the Borderlands: The U.S.-Mexico Anti-Archive. The collection is made up of 867 objects including toothbrushes, shoes, backpacks, ID cards, and small Bibles, all meant to remind the viewer of the human face behind the politics of the U.S. immigration debate. 

Image of a green execution gurney against a filthy wall.
By Meghna Sridhar • 13 hours ago

Death Penalty Support Reaches An All Time Low, and Here’s Why Feminists Should Care

According to a study published this week, the percentage of Americans who support public executions has now reached its lowest point in more than four decades, with less than half of the country offering support for the brutal, internationally disfavoured punishment.

According to a study published this week, the percentage of Americans who support public executions has now reached its lowest point in more than four decades, with less than half of the country offering support for the ...
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 1 day ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Last presidential debate there wasn’t a single question on immigration. Join this Thunderclap to vote for 6-year-old Sophie Cruz to ask a question to the candidates: “If you deport my parents, what happens to me?”

Last presidential debate there wasn’t a single question on immigration. Join this Thunderclap to vote for 6-year-old Sophie Cruz to ask a question to the candidates: “If you deport my parents, what happens to me?”

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By Cassie da Costa • 1 day ago

Review: ‘Christine’

Christine Chubbuck was a TV reporter at a station in Sarasota, Florida when on July 15, 1974 while reporting live on air, the production team was unable to switch to a video that she had just announced, so instead she read a few lines she wrote for the occasion — “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living color, you are going to see another first: attempted suicide” — took a revolver from her purse, and shot herself behind her right ear.

Christine Chubbuck was a TV reporter at a station in Sarasota, Florida when on July 15, 1974 while reporting live on air, the production team was unable to switch to a video that she had just announced, so instead she ...

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