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Gay dollars, labor and boycotts

For Eric Stanley, economic boycotts “uphold the free market myth of capitalism in ‘non-boycott’ times.”

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Class in Drag or Who’s Middle Class Anyway?: Sarah Palin, Joe Sixpack, and Main Street

But even more fascinating to me is the extent to which we hold on to the idea that we’re all just part of a struggling middle class, despite mounting evidence that a lot of us are just plain poor. 

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Barefoot and Pregnant in the White House: Sarah and Bristol Palin

Let’s not forget that a woman’s right to have an abortion has everything to do with citizenship and power and can’t be dismissed as irrelevant.

Back of the Bus
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Food Pantry Shortages: What’s the Real Story?

Don’t give, agitate.  For better wages, for health care, and for eventually phasing Food Depositories out of business.

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Queers and Gentrification: Wind Chimes

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Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Excerpt: We have since attempted to scrub ourselves clean of the unconscious.

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Interview with Walter Benn Michaels: Is celebrating all the stripes in the rainbow enough?

What that actually means is that both the Left and the Right in this country have succeeded in defining the center of politics as how you feel about identity. And as long as that’s true, that means the Right always wins.

The Trouble with Diversity
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American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity

Excerpt: Sex trafficking stories are symptomatic of our uneasy relationship with a new global economy.

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Gay Immigration (and) Inequality

But is “family” necessarily part of a progressive reform agenda? 

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Queer Space

But, in the end, it’s about who can pay to live in a neighborhood and whose tax dollars count the most.