Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 10

How Ghislaine Was My Valley

We still can't stop thinking about how excited Elaine Benes would be that JFK Jr. is coming back.

Listening to the Democratic Forest with Brian Harnetty

A conversation about Appalachia, environmentalism, and sound art.

Mallstalgia

Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.

Manzanar Children’s Village: Japanese American Orphans in a WWII Concentration Camp

In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.

Caregivers’ Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

Maliha Ahmed was an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying linguistics, when she began working as a […]

The Fantasy of Hispanic Heritage Month

I and most ethnic Mexican compas, colleagues, and gente in communities of my ilk do not identify with Spain’s legacy of violence and exploitation in the Americas.

Incinerating the Incinerator

In this short story, a group of teens confronts environmental racism and the invidious question: "Why don't you just move?"

A World of Their Own

Alex talks about a new project on the care economy

“Live Long and Prosper”: Spock as an Icon for Queer Hope

For generations of queer people, Spock has represented a much-needed world of possibilities.

Don’t Turn Around

Beloved Swedish pop group Ace of Base has a lot to tell us about Afghanistan. Or maybe not.