It’s difficult to write anything about denim that hasn’t already been written countless times before. Denim is something special, an icon of modernity and somehow, simultaneously, a throwback to a bygone era. Deeply engrained in our collective cultural consciousness, denim’s history is closely entwined with the history of the conquest of the West, and the birth of the American Myth.
The Criminalization of Blackness & the Prison Industrial Complex
  Maria Arseniuk On the morning of Tuesday, November 8th I woke up ready to usher in the first female president of the United States. My three years of researching and writing about entrenched and institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia prepared me for an inevitable Trump victory – and yet my optimism held out.