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The Identity Hoaxers Helen Lewis The confession, when it came, did not hold back. “For the better part of my adult life, every move I’ve made, every relationship I’ve formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies,” read the Medium post. It was published in September under the name of Jessica A. Krug, a George Washington University professor specializing in Black history. Krug had, she said, variously assumed the identities of “North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.” She was actually a white Jewish woman from Kansas. “You absolutely should cancel me,” Krug wrote in her self-dramatizing mea culpa, “and I absolutely cancel myself.” ....
Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s “To the River, We Are Migrants” Ayendy Bonifacio THE BORDERS OF DOMINICANIDAD: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, Lorgia García-Peña explores how the sea can be a border, noting that in the Caribbean and elsewhere, “the question of bordering the nation inevitably encompasses the sea from which potential threats in the form of colonial forces or, more recently, undocumented immigrants can arrive.” However, she also notes that the sea can also be “a symbol of freedom” as it “marks both the end of the insular territory and the beginning of the endless possibilities of a world beyond” that also emerges “as a symbol of globalization and miscegenation: a place where all the waters mix.” While the sea as a threatening border represents the view from receiving countries who fear immigrants and refugees, the sea as freedom and mixing represents the point of view from those who would leave their home coun ....