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caring: a labor of stolen time

JOMO

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Pages from a CNAโ€™s Notebook [1] JOMO wrote this about her job and her organizing at a nursing home in Washington State in 2010. Given the COVID19 crisis, we are reposting the piece with an intro ...

Regina and the Racist

Kit-Bacon Gressitt

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โ€œWhen my son was murdered, I read Job,โ€ Regina said. Regina was my ride-share driver, fifty-something, and a seat-full of voluptuous curves. She was chatty and she talked with her hands vociferously, which was only a ...

The Everyday Abolitionism of 13 Reasons Why

Jarrod Shanahan

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Itโ€™s an all-too-familiar scene. An alienated young man named named Tyler Down approaches a school clad in black, strapped with guns and ammunition, and bent on cold-blooded mass murder. But unlike the tragedies making headlines across ...

Adventures in Cruiseland

John Garvey

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Cruise ships are bigโ€”the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily.ย Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high ...

A Short Note on May Stevens

John Garvey

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In August of 2018, I posted an articleย titled “The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens” about the life and work of Ms. Stevens. I recently learned that she had died at the age of 95 in December of 2019.ย  ...

Warding off Loneliness at Walmart: the Misadventures of a Former Urbanite

Zhandarka Kurti

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Since my move to Tennessee besides acclimating to my new job, my life has revolved around ordering items on Amazon Prime, swiping left on Tinder and driving to the local Walmart Supercenter. Tennessee ranks eighth in ...

Interview with Matt Peterson of Woodbine

John Garvey

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ย  ย  ย What is Woodbine? Woodbine is a common, autonomous, experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens, opened up by a group of friends in the beginning of 2014. The idea behind it was to open up an ...

Remembering Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan

Hard Crackers Editors

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In the next few weeks we will share with our readers some reflections on Noel’s political legacy that have been originally published posthumously by close friends, political collaborators, former students and also by different media outlets. ...

Harlem Homecoming

Salim Washington

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By Salim Washington *The following originally appeared as a Facebook post.* I got in late the night before last and walked the streets of my old neighborhood, mainly in search of a meal and some snacks ...

Saturday evening in Paris, strike chronicle

Co Zannier

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[This article originally appeared in the French web newspaper Mediapart.fr on December 29th. It has been translated by Hard Crackers]. Yesterday I did not participate in any of the demonstrations having arrived too late in Paris; ...
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