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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing

A Portion of the Mind: On Writing and Nobel Prizes

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Hasan Minhaj, Trauma Passports, and Immigrant Fictions

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all. 

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On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

My “The Politics of Publishing” Is Out in Current Affairs

Fixing the publishing industry will require eliminating exploitation, not just improving representation.

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Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Domesticus Scientifica: Or, How Temperance Brennan Lost Her Mind And Became a Woman

Excerpt: It’s all a bit like going to Thanksgiving at your nicely progressive cousin’s house and finding yourself seated next to Josef Mengele.

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People and Places to Support

People and Places to Support, 2019

I’m often asked, “What are the publications and organizations and people you support?” So, in response, I’ve made up this set of lists, which I’ll add to as time goes on.

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Update: On Publishing, Plagiarism, Philz Coffee, and Persistence

If there is one thing I’m really happy about, it’s my writing.  I’m exploring new topics and even genres and very happy stretching my muscles with all the new work I’ve got planned.  

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

Excerpt: This is a murder mystery without a murder.  Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that […]