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For Terese Mailhot’s essay, A Person On Paper, chronicling the bureaucratic negotiations of indigenous people whose lives are restricted by US-Canada treaties.

For Melissa Chadburn’s piece The Cold Violence of Compliance, confronting how deep-seated notions of personal responsibility affect childcare provision in America.

For A Separate State by Nimmi Gowrinathan, which considers motherhood as a cultural commodity wielded in times of political crisis

For Rafia Zakaria’s exploration of how border and state policies co-opt the fight against FGM to further marginalize Muslim communities, Weaponized Bodies.

For Michelle Garcia’s essay Hand of Terror, examining the use of Gitmo terror tactics at the border today.