Introduction

Conversations with and among ourselves and each other are the only way we solve problems and constitute change in real and tangible ways.

Adrian Piper

When living honorably is more important than staying alive, you’re ready to fight effectively for what you believe in.

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

Frank B. Wilderson III

The essential antagonism is not between the workers and bosses but between the Humans and the Blacks.

in conversation with Aria Dean

Christopher K. Ho

The paradigmatic Hongkonger, especially from the generations between 1949 and 1997, is transnational and neoliberal.

in conversation with Dawn Chan

Sarah Schulman

Historically, queer women have been on the front lines of every progressive movement, but not always openly.

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

Nell Painter

Things improving for old women artists is like things improving for Black Americans. Things improve. But things stay shitty.

in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler

Ruba Katrib

The modern manifestation of the museum has its origins as a colonial and disciplining institution.

in conversation with Dawn Chan

Mimi Thi Nguyen

One mantra in particular strikes me in this moment—and it is from John Waters's Female Trouble—‘crime is beauty.’

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

Mark Wigley

Architecture is not about the wellbeing of humans at all. It doesn't simply house the human, it remakes the human.

in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa

Howardena Pindell

There will be gradual changes in the art world, but the arts are often the last to change.

in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler

Hal Foster

Even though I don't see criticism as art, I don't see it as secondary to art. I see it as a practice parallel to it.

in conversation with Aria Dean