Zine – THE UNDERBELLI

a whores’ dialogue: on the history & racism of anti-trafficking {podcast transcript}

28 Sep 201814 Jul 2019

This is a transcript of episode 3 of our new podcast, The Underbelli. This episode is a historical fiction interpretation of some articles about the history of anti-trafficking projects. We have made these articles available on their own as well in a reader we put together called The Myths of Sex Trafficking. A PDF for […]

The Myths of Sex Trafficking

15 Jan 20183 Apr 2018

This is the introduction to The Myths of Sex Trafficking: A Reader on Law Enforcement and Carceral Feminism.** Download the reader here and find the full length articles here. This reader was put together in the shadow of the 2018 Minneapolis Superbowl. With a major sporting event like this there is—among other things—an intensified deployment […]

against stigma, not sex work

12 Oct 20171 Dec 2018

Print this mini zine here. Stigma is what makes sex work potentially dangerous for sex workers, not sex work itself. Stigma exists in a nexus of capitalist exploitation of bodies, cis-hetero-patriarchy and white supremacy, not in a vacuum of morals as it is commonly treated. Stigma – meaning a “mark of shame” – is branded […]

Schizo-Genesis // Mad Apocalypse: The Story of the Psycho—Bellum Primer One

30 Jun 20177 Jan 2018

As Socrates languished in a cell on the acropolis for “corrupting the youth,” a mysterious figure in robes raved and babbled under the spell of noxious gasses on the mountain of Delphi, and she was called Oracle. In the same century in which Justinian constructed his master work of the Eastern Orthodox faith, the Hagia […]

Norms // Law: Fictions and Theaters of Power—Bellum Primer Zero

21 Jun 201712 Sep 2017

“Only a fiction can make us believe a law is to be respected.” -Michel Foucault a. on gods and activists: the myth of authority At a demonstration in Minneapolis on November 10th following the election of Donald Trump, demonstrators moved onto I-94, blocking all lanes of traffic, making use of a tactic that has gained […]