The Archive
Week in Video Giants
Stuck in the Tape Deck If the mediocre 2013 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick The Last Stand had been released in 2004, …
4 poems
twenty years from today , i still love you Shuchi with intent , i limb my swollen gesture in your ventilator …
Towards a New Collective Memory
On October 31 of last year, the campus of South Asia University (SAU) in New Delhi, India, glowed pink and blue. …
Long Shadows Smoking Guns
I think many people who live in Downtown Providence and on the East Side would be surprised to discover that a …
Days of Our Lives
On soap operas and suffering
Like the plot of any good melodrama, my relationship to The Bold and the Beautiful was a matter of fate, and …
Caught in Rhode Island
An investigation into how court fees and fines trap low-income Rhode Islanders in poverty
When Roberto Torres appeared in District Court on February 14, 2019, and plead no contest to a reckless driving charge, he …
A High Stakes Game of Jenga
Or, how to move a house
The first time Guy Davis ever moved a house, things did not go as planned. He was told it would be …
Beyond Rubbers
A short history of male birth control
When patients come to Dr. Kelly Brogan MD, a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, with complaints of low libido, insomnia, unstable …
Mattiello and the Machine
Nicholas Mattiello and the centralization of the Rhode Island House
Nicholas Mattiello has been touted as the most powerful man in Rhode Island. This power stems primarily from his position as …
Queering Bollywood
LGBTQ representation goes mainstream
The last time a mainstream Hindi-language film featuring a lesbian lead was released in India was in 1996. The movie, Fire, …
Keep Your Tongue in its Cage
Protest art and revolution in Kuwait, Sudan, and Egypt
On February 25th, the Kuwaiti government abruptly announced that it would be cancelling a performance by Mashrou’ Leila, a five-member Lebanese …
Week in the Sky
WOW! AIRLINE FAIL! For months, the fiscal winds had been changing for WOW Air’s fleet of pink aircraft: fourth quarter reports …
City Upon a Hill
A study in the geopolitics of elevation
The Berkeley hills bound the city to the east. The ridge stretches up and down the eastern bank of the San …
After Life
A slight breeze tickles the hairs on the medium-sized A slight breeze tickles the hair on the young girl’s arms, and …
As Seen From Above
Digital archaeology in Afghanistan
In a dusty, treeless valley south of Kabul, Afghanistan, the ancient walls of Mes Aynak almost blend into the surrounding earth. …
Waving the Flag
Competition and community at the Providence Gay Flag Football League
From a distance, the scene looks and sounds not unlike a standard fair-weather gym class. Players clad in mismatched jerseys dart …
Against Forgetting
Enforced Disappearances, Visual Archives of Loss, and Collective Mourning in Kashmir
Mughal Mase sits at an APDP demonstration, holding a photo of her son. Photo taken as part of a series by …
A Friday For Our Future
An interview with the organizers of the Rhode Island Youth Climate Strike
At 11AM on Friday, March 15, hundreds of thousands of students around the world walked out of their classrooms. From London …
"Have You Eaten?"
Rice, Agriculture, and Military Occupation in Kashmir
KASHMIR: LIFE UNDER SIEGE: PART 1 This week, the Indy News section begins a two-part series on the occupation of Kashmir, …
Week in Dismemberment
A DICHOTOMY OF BAGELS A firestorm erupted on Twitter last Monday when Alek Krautmann, a DC-based Missouri native, posted a photo …
Waterlog
On swamps, deserts, and sites of old selves
In Southern Appalachia, the forests have been burying themselves for millennia. The trees collapse where the forest floor puddles: thick floods …
Rendering Deep Time
“Consider the Earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard, the distance from the king’s nose to the tip …
Sealing the Deal
Competing narratives of conservation in the Narragansett Bay
It was not ideal weather for seal watching. The wind coming off of Rome Point was strong and unflagging, pressing against …
Rhode Island is Famous for You
Crimetown, and the problem of Providence's mob narrative
My Italian-American father tells one of our family’s best stories. I heard it again recently after I asked him, mostly in …
Cleaning Up the Workplace
Fuerza Laboral pioneers the first worker cooperative in Rhode Island
Last December, in a spacious, carpeted conference room inside Navigant Credit Union in Central Falls, nineteen graduates of the second annual …
Week in Archaic Institutions
Awake, Arise, Or Be Forever Fall’n Wednesday’s vernal equinox heralded the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, but most of …
Two Stories
Duck Chainsaw Lost Nevada has a red sky but it’s never violent to anyone who’s born there, only the ones that …
Exit Interview with My Grandmother
On 76th between Columbus and Amsterdam, a ninety-two year old woman is reading Sally Rooney
My grandmother serves me small lunches she likes to call gourmet. Ham, whole wheat, mustard, assorted cookies my mother brings my …
Dogs Affixed
Pet taxidermy, cloning, and mourning
At a business meeting, a woman walks my mom into an office and introduces her dog, Chelsea, a black-haired Chihuahua with …
The Individual Uniform
Sartorial representation from the fig leaf to the turtleneck
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable …