Pablo Delano, A Group of newly made Americans at Ponce, Porto Rico, (detail from the conceptual art installation The Museum of the Old Colony, 2016-ongoing). Source: Stereocard published by M. H. Zahner, Niagara Falls, New York, 1898. Photographer not identified. By R. Sánchez-Rivera Recently, a published, peer-reviewed article caused a great deal of controversy when it circulated among many academic Facebook pages such as Latinx…
Photo Credit: Jackie Rodriguez Vega By Mike Amezcua The police killing of George Floyd has sparked urban rebellions and demonstrations across hundreds of American cities. The accompanying looting and destruction…
Labadee, Production Photography, HD video, sound, 7 min 10 sec, 2017, Joiri Minaya Regarding cruise ships, the terrorism of tourism in the Caribbean, and the Western media’s summer 2019 discourse about “poisonings” at resorts in the Dominican Republic…
By Aaron S. Lecklider Like many of you, the Abusable Past wondered how the New York Times decided to publish Tom Cotton’s editorial advocating the…
Hong Kongers attend an election eve rally for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen on January 10, 2020, holding a flag proclaiming the unofficial slogan of the Hong Kong protests ("Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times") and a poster that reads "Yesterday 228, Today Hong Kong", comparing the February 28th Massacre in Taiwan to Hong Kong's possible future after the end of "one country, two systems."
Photo by Catherine Chou.
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By Catherine Chou and Gina Anne Tam On May 21st 2020, after nearly a year of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the government of the…
Video still of Bad Bunny in "Yo Perreo Sola." By Julio Capó, Jr. “Y ahora quieres volver / nah, tú lo que quieres es joder” (translation: and now you want to come back /…
Marina Catilao, Traful Newén, Argentina By Diego Ortúzar and Ángela Vergara Meatpacking companies in the U.S. are reopening their plants despite widespread infection among their workers, nurses around the world…
by Natasha Varner On the afternoon of April 15th, detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington filled the narrow triangle that serves as…
BY LYNNELL L. THOMAS Here we go again. New Orleanians are having flashbacks of Hurricane Katrina. The announcement that the Morial Convention Center would be…
"Sweeping Fallen leaves in the Suburbs. New York City," 1941, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. By Matthew Guariglia As of this moment, there are supposedly over 1 million surveillance cameras and microphones screwed into the front doors of people all…