Molly Crabapple

protest

Dystopian Sketches from Inside the Inauguration Protesters' Trial

Strange scenes from what is surely one of the most insane courtrooms in America right now.
Molly Crabapple
12.7.17
refugees

Greece Is Cracking Down on the Anarchist Squats Giving Shelter to Refugees

This week the authorities kicked more than 100 refugees out of their temporary homes, making life harder for one of the world's most marginalized populations.
Molly Crabapple
3.16.17
The Tight Squeeze Issue

Greece's Anarchists Are Taking Better Care of Refugees Than the Government

Greece has been at the crossroads of irregular immigration for more than a decade, especially since the influx of refugees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s.
Molly Crabapple
3.9.17
Stuff

Why Katherine Dunn's 'Geek Love' Was a Bible to Weird Kids Like Me

Katherine Dunn died this week, but her work—especially the incredible novel "Geek Love"—spoke to everyone who thought of themselves as an outsider or weirdo.
Molly Crabapple
5.15.16
News

The Woman Who Fought and Won Against New York's Special Prostitution Courts

When a former sex worker was picked up by the cops for no reason, she didn't take the easy route and plead guilty and sued the city for false arrest.
Molly Crabapple
5.12.16
News

What Life Is Like Inside the Besieged, War-Torn Syrian City of Aleppo

Constant bombing attacks, the destruction of hospitals and schools, and the severing of supply chains have left Aleppo and its estimated 320,000 remaining citizens in dire straits.
Molly Crabapple
2.29.16
Stuff

Molly Crabapple's Heartbreaking Portraits of Syrian Refugees

Molly Crabapple went to the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan to record the stories of Syrians forced from their homes by war and suffering.
Molly Crabapple
12.16.15
the vice reader

My Time as an Artist at the Center of the Insane Financial Industry Boom

An excerpt from Molly Crabapple's upcoming memoir, "Drawing Blood," out on December 1.
Molly Crabapple
11.24.15
Stuff

The Paris Attacks, Refugees, and the Brutal Fiction of Borders

In embracing restrictions on refugees, right-wing politicians in the West are playing right into the Islamic State's hands.
Molly Crabapple
11.19.15
The Prison Issue

What Happens When Inmates in Solitary Confinement Blow the Whistle on Their Abuse?

A group of inmates calling themselves the Dallas Six banded together and grew committed to bringing their prison's abusive conditions to light, even in the face of being confined there longer.
Molly Crabapple
10.15.15
Travel

The Oppressive Architecture of the West Bank

A look at life inside Hebron, where Palestinians' everyday lives are hemmed in by a system of soldiers, checkpoints, barricades, and violence.
Molly Crabapple
8.24.15
News

Gaza Is Still in Ruins a Year After the War

Palestinians have struggled to recover from the havoc wrought by Israel's Operation Protective Edge.
Molly Crabapple
6.30.15
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