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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.

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How Trafficking Became Sexy