A Spotlight on Rumors
Handmade transcript of a 2025 faculty award lecture by Kate Starbird at the University of Washington, laying out a decade-plus of disinformation research findings
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TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
Syria’s Islamized Armenians
The massacres in 1915 were followed by forcibly deporting Armenians to the Syrian desert. Many of the survivors of this deportation were small children who were adopted into local Arab and Kurdish families. After that, the story ends and these people disappear.
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When Do Villains Become Heroes?
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
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Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
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Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond
Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming up with new ideas to name a rare situation, we keep reiterating the same old terms.
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Zine: Where Are the Arabs?
Arab liberation from authoritarian regimes is interconnected with Palestinian liberation from Zionism.
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Protests in Turkey: Perspectives from the Periphery
On 23 March 2025, the president of Turkey arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, alongside dozens of others, sparking a wave of protests that in turn saw yet more police repression, arrests, and mass confusion.
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Zine: Our Mirror Worlds
Standing on the side of life, in the context of genocide and ecocide and the normalization of mass death on pretty much every front—I believe that’s radical, transformational.
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The Messiah and the God-Emperor of Zurich
Book review: The Ministry for the Future reads like an insufficiently self-conscious parody of itself, complete with an overly self-important title and tone-deaf execution. It would read much better as satire.
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