Logic(s) Magazine

Issue 22: Out of Place is out now!   This issue features thoughtful explorations of Palestinian relational networks, surveillance medicine, Black dispossession in San Francisco, settler colonialism in Taiwan and semiconductor fabrication, Black Computational Thought, Metabolic Flesh: a stunning selection of visual art curated by @elegantcollisions , & more!   Cover art: @bleueliverpool   Grateful for contributions from: @elegantcollisions @babywasu @kameelahr @ssteenaa @jadareneeholy @anastaciarenee5 @imanperson_studio @shooktwinks @stillhere_415 @sandiegounhousedcollective #LogicsMagazine

NYC Next Tuesday! @logicsmag X Avid Society. LINK IN BIO In recent days, our bodies have been in headlines around the world. But beyond biomedical exams and policy debates, how do we hold on to the everyday glamor of trans life? This salon-night is an open space to celebrates divas and their big ideas — inviting open contributions (diary entries, spoken reflections, fashion statements, poetry, etc)— in the spirit that, perhaps we have more to learn from the each other’s world than we think. From TGNC+ global organizers in NYC to Hijra kinship systems in India, the evening begins with a series of short keynotes from three trans women writers and organizers working across different global contexts—followed by an open space to think beyond national borders, share in community, mingle, and keep dancing even in the most uncertain of times—as dolls always have. Dress: GLAM ✨ Registration and address shared via RSVP only (link in bio). Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available. Decks & drinks by @srizzybeats starting 8pm 🎶 #nycsocialclub #lgbt #trans

This fellowship was made possible through the support of Distributed AI Research (@dairinstitute ), Migration and Technology Monitor(@migration.tech ), Pillars Fund (@pillarsfund ) as well as individual Logic(s) readers and supporters - we are deeply grateful for our community. #Palestine #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Palestinian #PalestineWillBeFree #Gaza #LogicsMagazine

We are excited to feature poems by interdisciplinary artist Anastacia-Reneé in our current issue! @anastaciarenee5 is the author of (v.) (Gramma/Black Ocean), Forget It (Black Radish); Sidenotes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad, ), and Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere (HarperCollins/Amistad). 🔗: Link in bio #BlackPoet #BlackPoetry #BlackWritters #QueerWriters #LogicsMagazine

This conversation between abolitionist organizer Ralowe T. Ampu (@shooktwinks ) and UC Berkeley professor Eric A. Stanley (@stillhere_415 ) maps cycles of displacement in San Francisco. Ampu traces the ongoing removal of Black life from her arrival in 1996—a year that also marks the election of the city’s first Black mayor, Willie Brown, and its first tech boom—to the present. Foregrounding the ways Black politicians spearheaded the dispossession of San Francisco’s Black communities, and drawing on a storied history of organizing against these violent modes of urban planning, Ampu provides unique insight into the everyday implications of computation as a municipal project. 🔗: Link in bio 📸: Burning police cars at the San Francisco Civic Center, May 21, 1979, during the so-called White Night protests. The demonstrations took place in response to a lenient verdict in the trial of Dan White for the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. Photo: Robert Clay / Alamy. #Abolitionst #BlackBayArea #BlackSF #SilconValley #SanFrancisco #LogicsMagazine

Oliver Rollins - qualitative sociologist and assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at @mit - discusses his research on race and the production and use of neuroscientific technologies with Logic(s)’ @suchetaghoshal . Neurocriminology, much like all science, does not happen in a vacuum; social, political, and economic structures restrict and enable this field. While locating the funding sources for neurocriminology research helps us make sense of the field’s priorities, questioning its ties to previously established forms of racial sciences such as eugenics leads us to a more fundamental question: Why does the US academy invest so much capital in the flawed scientistic endeavor of locating biological roots of violence? 🔗: Link in bio 📸: Photographs of fifty “criminal brains” from an exhibit by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, 1921. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, via National Library of Medicine. #NeuroRacism #Neurology #MedicalRacism #BioEthics #LogicsMagazine

Poet Jada Renée Allen (@jadareneeholy ) talks to Rezina Habtemariam (@rezinabesayin ) about her practice of conjuring: of self, poems, and communal sites of study for Black trans writers. In this interview, Jada reflects on what informs her writing - leaning into elegy, the dead, and divination - as she works on her debut manuscript, Drill. 🔗: Link in bio 📸: Jada Renée Allen, Photo: K Anderson. In Logic(s) Issue 19, Shamira Ibrahim (@shamirathefirst ) asks: “Which technologies—digital and otherwise—recognize dark-skinned people, and to what end?” Jada Reneé Allen’s work and this conversation attends to that question, offering a response centering a dark-skinned Black femme abolitionist poetics. #BlackTransWomen #QueerBlack#BlackWriters #BlackTransWriters #BlackPoet #BlackPoetry #TransPoet #TransPoetry #AudreLorde #CherylClarke #LucilleClifton #MNourbeSePhilip #ToniMorrison #LogicsMagazine

Zoé Samudzi [@babywasu ] incisively links the biomedical control through which Israel seeks to asphyxiate Palestinians to the kinds of surveillance Black families like her own become subject in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. What surveillance watches is uncertainty and risk— of cancer, an intifada, or any unruly threat. & shoutout to our brilliant contributing editor @mirrorsandwater ! 🔗: Link in bio 📸: A stereographic image from Ramallah, Palestine, of a Palestinian father and his two children, ca. 1905. Source: Keystone View Company. #AntiBlackness #MedicalRacism #BioEthics #BioTech #Palestine #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Palestinian #PalestineWillBeFree #Gaza #NoTechForApartheid #DigitalTech #Tech #LogicsMagazine

Logic(s) is live at Chennai Book Fair 2025, partnering with Thirunangai Press (founded by @gracebanu )! Come say hi any day before Jan 12 at YMCA Chennai to check out our work, grab a copy of any of our recent issues, and support the grassroots trans and caste-oppressed authors at the @thirunangaipress stall!

@barakattxf maps indigenous agricultural knowledge onto how Palestinians leverage WhatsApp and Facebook to communally navigate the terror of occupation. Barakat’s intervention reminds us that a “relational approach to sowing seeds can orient a world”. 🔗: Link in bio 📸: Two mature olive trees in عين قينيا (Ein Qiniya), West Bank, Palestine. Photo: Hanna Barakat, 2022. #Palestine #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Palestinian #PalestineWillBeFree #WestBank #Ramallah #Gaza #NoTechForApartheid #IndigenousFarming #GreenColonialism #DigitalTech #Tech #DigitalCommunication #SettlerColonialism #California #LogicsMagazine

We’re looking for our next cohort of contributing editors - deadline extended to December 6th!

What an incredible night! Thank you so much to everybody that came to celebrate the launch of Issue 21! Shoutout to the brilliant @shamirathefirst and @barryoaks , and to our friends at @franciskiteclub for hosting us! #LogicsMagazine