5LL #355: Language, Fugitives, Shade, Identity, Thomas Kinkade
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
Alaa Alqaisi, ArabLit
Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought.
Fugitive Solidarities
Dylan Saba, Parapraxis
The U.S.–Israeli insistence on exit—on blowing past borders and limits, expanding through social contradictions, and attempting to warehouse away and stamp out radical subjectivity—is the same capitalist logic animating human-powered ecological destruction.
No Justice, No Shade
Eric Dean Wilson, The Baffler
The hatred of shade is, in other words, the hatred of public space and its democratic potential.
How the Trump Administration is Constructing Jewishness
Ben Gernstein, LPE
In this emerging framework, only those who are “real” Jews, or “good” Jews can define and experience antisemitism. By contrast, other Jews, especially anti-Zionist Jews, are “bad Jews.”
The Painter of the Right
Sarah Jones, Dissent
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.