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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex

America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

Travel, Passports, and the Differences between Expats and Immigrants

Excerpt: Koutonin appears peeved that he and others, perhaps more broadly the entrepreneurs he writes for in his regular blog, don’t get to enjoy the class privilege of being expatriates.  

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.

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Academia Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

Excerpt: Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

Excerpt: Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.  

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

“Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis”: New Piece in Contrivers’ Review

Class Shock: the feeling of inadequacy and anger that arises when one’s class aspirations have been trampled underfoot.

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