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Slavery’s ghost: Prison imperialism, Jamaica, and the UK
Young boys in a Jamaican prison cell, 2007. Photo © Gary S. Chapman, from www.garyschapman.com This essay is dedicated, in humble gratitude, to the memory of Dr. Robert Carr. David Cameron is in...
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Oppose the UK – Jamaica prison deal
Activists in the UK are mobilizing against the Cameron government’s proposed diversion of foreign aid to build a new prison in Jamaica, and open a transatlantic export trade in inmates. A public...
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Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk
Photo taken and publicized by Egyptian journalist Mona Iraqi, showing arrested victims of the 2014 Cairo bathhouse raid over which she presided On June 16, I gave a Human Rights Lecture as part of the...
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The UN, seen from Khayelitsha: Guest post
Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa On June 30, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a resolution establishing an independent expert (a special investigative mechanism, a...
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Selling out: The gays and governmentality
On October 13, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej died. 88 years old and the longest-seated of the world’s shrinking stock of monarchs, he was almost uniformly revered by a grieving public. Certainly...
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Trump
“Weeping,” a South African anti-apartheid song, sung by Vusi Mahlasela Donald Trump was was not elected despite universal disbelief that it was possible. He was elected because of universal disbelief...
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Egypt: Interrogating the terrorist Scott Long
“Source of Inspiration”: cartoon by Andeel, Mada Masr, November 2016. Sisi says: “A true pasha, by God.” I hadn’t meant to write about this. It’s small compared to what many Egyptians face, or fear....
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As If: On Alaa Abd el Fattah
Bread, freedom, dignity: Street art in downtown Cairo, 2015, photo by ChrisJ for TrekEarth In a quarter-century of visiting prisons or sitting in courtrooms and prosecutors’ offices, I’ve never really...
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Egypt’s Wipe-Out-the-Queers Bill
Forbidden colors: A rainbow flag is waved at Mashrou’ Leila’s concert in Cairo, September 22, 2017 Egypt’s crackdown on transgender and gay people started almost exactly four years ago, just a few...
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From Abu Ghraib to Neukölln: Neocon Repetition Compulsion in Berlin
Fernando Botero (1932 -), Colombia, Abu Ghraib, from a series, 2005 Politics in so-called liberal democracies these days is mostly about hating people outside politics. Migrants are by definition...
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