Jackie Wang

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog. Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral Capitalism. Alien Daughters charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an "odd girl" from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, Alien Daughters is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.

Amulet Magasin 2 - et litterært aktivistisk magasin. Teksterne i magasinet er optaget af fællesskabet, af raseriet, af samfundets vanvid, og af akutheden. Som Silas Aliki skriver i deres essay: "Der må findes en måde at skrive på, som er rasende. Jeg er træt af lavmæltheden som skjold". Bidragsydere: Isha Neman, Lukas La Cour, Fatemeh Ekhtesari (gendigtet fra persisk af Shadi Angelina Bazeghi), Shadi Angelina Bazeghi, Rosa Marie Frang, Pernille Abd-El Dayem, Karoline Franka Foldager, Jackie Wang (på dansk ved Jonas Eika & Nanna Dahler), Silas Aliki (på dansk ved Jakob Slebsager Nielsen), Priya Bains, Trille, Theodor Præst Nymark Jensen. Grafiske bidrag: Kasper Pyndt, Christian Kirch Knudsen, Valdemar Bisgaard, Dorte Limkilde, Ellen Leer, Nicolai Schmelling, Anna Gunvor, Rasmus Svane Jensen, Osvald Landmark, Frederik Wendt, Jonas Baun, Esben Ild, Signe Bagger, Frederik Galsgaard, Kirsten Lauge, Kasper Ledet, Linea Lan Cai Fabricius, Katrine Thorup, Anette Bodil Grau, Tor Schøning Johannesen, Hans Høite Augustenborg, Carl Johan Jacobsen.

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALISTJackie Wang’s magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. The poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void read like dispatches from the dream world, with Jackie Wang acting as our trusted comrade reporting across time and space. By sharing her personal index of dreams with its scenes of solidarity and resilience, interpersonal conflict and outlaw jouissance, Wang embodies historical trauma and communal memory. Here, the all-too-familiar interplay between crisis and resistance becomes first distorted, then clarified and refreshed. With a light touch and invigorating sense of humor, Wang illustrates the social dimension of dreams and their ability to inform and reshape the dreamer's waking world with renewed energy and insight.

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from Carceral CapitalismIn this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.

I'm carny trash turned gigolo. When I was seventeen, I swallowed swords. Now I swallow my pride and sell my body on the Las Vegas strip. I make three hundred bucks a day, but I still live in a trailer because I blow every dime I have on slots. Vegas was supposed to make me richer than Midas. It was supposed to be my lucky paradise, my big break. But instead of filling with green, my wallet filled up with debt. Instead of hope, my heart filled up with bitterness, rage and disgust. I wanted to end the cycle of poverty and addiction that enslaved me. Was about to pull the trigger and take my life when she showed up and changed the game. Rose Hathaway. Fiery hair, feisty personality and hotter than the devil she dressed up as for Halloween. She stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life. And how did I repay her? By ruining her life and destroying her career six months later. This is our story. AUTHOR'S NOTE: This book contains some sensitive subject matter that may trigger some readers.

Terri Fifteen years ago, Beckett ripped my heart out, then disappeared. Now he's on my doorstep, covered in blood, begging for help. He thinks I'm stupid enough to let him in. But I've learned my lesson. Guilt and secrets follow Beckett, and I'm not getting involved- Thing is, I can't just leave him outside during a thunderstorm. So I let him in, telling myself it's only to get him cleaned up. I ask him for some sort of explanation, but he doesn't have one. He says he doesn't remember anything. I. Don't. Trust. Him. How was I to know that wiping away his blood would make me an accessory to his nightmare? That this time, his sins were going to destroy us both? Beck Fifteen years ago, I broke up with the girl I swore I'd marry. Now I need her help, but I don't deserve her kindness. I know if I want to gain her trust, I'll need to tell her everything. But first, I need to pick up the pieces of my memories and put them in some kind of order. I don't want to hurt her again. I never meant to break her heart. I never meant to involve her in my living nightmare. But she's all that I have left. She's my final lifeline, and I can't let her go.

Homeless. Broken. Outcast. Ryder is an ex-con fueled by one thing: revenge. His target: his enemy's only daughter, a prissy billionaire heiress. His new pawn. If he can win over Cally, he might just have a shot at getting his life back. Jaded. Paranoid. Exhausted. Cally is sick of people using her to get closer to her dad. Reeling from her recent breakup to an obsessive, stalker boyfriend, she's naturally suspicious when a hot stranger strikes up a conversation with her at a bar. She doesn't trust him; she doesn't trust anyone anymore, and she's not about to let him get inside her head. Cally won't open up unless Ryder reveals his dark secrets and confesses to his crimes. Ryder won't rest until Cally helps him bring down her own father. Ryder's all-consuming need for vengeance will be his downfall unless Cally can bring him out of the shadows, back into the light.

ASHER My new landlady is HOT and completely OFF LIMITS. If I don't play nice, I might get evicted. I don't want to play nice, though. Not. One. Bit. I wan't to play DIRTY. Too bad she isn't game. SIERRA My new tenant is a COCKY bastard who's completely full of himself. He thinks just because he's a sinfully SEXY, rich, and successful lawyer, I'll jump into bed with him. But I don't have time to indulge arrogant playboys like him. He wants to play GAMES, but I want to play for keeps.

The first time I saw Maggie Summers, I lusted after her bee-stung lips, spun-gold hair and pomegranate-scented skin. But I kept things professional between us. After all, we'd be working together for the next two weeks restoring her family's bankrupt lodge. Then I'd fly back to the UK first thing Christmas morning. Back to my hotel empire and back to my life as London's most eligible bachelor. I couldn't afford to fall for an American woman. But the more time we spent together, the more I realized that she wasn't just a pretty face attached to a spectacular body. She was so much more. Maggie was hard-working, fiercely loyal towards her family and had a heart of gold. She also had big dreams that were stifled by her inner demons and her dark past. I tried damn hard to resist this sweet, small-town girl, but I was destined for failure. Drunk off her banter, high off her laughter, and delirious with need, I ached to possess her heart, body, mind and soul. I wanted it all. Little did I know, Maggie would not only intoxicate me, but also give me the biggest hangover of my life.

He's trouble with a capital T. A rough, tattooed hunk charged with one mission: to give me the wildest night of my life. But I don't like bad boys and I don't have a wild side. I just want to get married, buy a house, have some kids, and save for retirement. What's wrong with that? But he's got other ideas. Ideas that involve skinny-dipping, risky poker games, lying to my fianc , and playing hooky from work. He's cocky, irresponsible and dangerous. Everything I'm not. There's amazing chemistry between us, I'll give him that... But I'm a good girl, who's about to marry a good man. I don't have time for a damaged bad boy and his dirty tricks.

The youngest female billionaire in the world... 3 eligible bachelors... From Venice, Italy to Hollywood Hills... VANESSA HOLDOM is twenty-nine, confident, sexy and filthy rich. She's got it all...until her perfect life is ruined by her cheating fianc , Aiden Carlisle. Devastated and humiliated, she runs away to Venice to mend her broken heart and dodge the paparazzi. There, she meets a penniless and recently widowed gondolier named Marco Romano, and his daughter, Adelina. What begins as a few simple gestures of kindness soon turns into a torrid love affair that changes Vanessa's life in the most unpredictable way. "Love Affair in Venice" is Jackie Wang's debut contemporary romance novel. It details a headstrong woman's turbulent emotional journey towards self-fulfillment. From the canals and piazzas of Venice, Italy to her luxurious estate in Hollywood Hills, follow Vanessa Holdom as she braves the most challenging year of her life. Filled with unexpected heartbreak and scandalous intrigue, this book will make you hold your breath until the very last page.