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Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

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What Does Your Politician Mean to You?

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“Elections Have Consequences”: Why We Should Scrap The Current System

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Should You Vote?

Instead of raging only about the larger political system, look closely at the institutions that have for so long granted access to matters like health and education and demand more from them.  

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Every President Is a Sociopath

Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
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American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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Cindy McCain: When Adoption Looks Like Trafficking

Excerpt: In the case of the children, she gives one away to friends — as one might pass on an extra pup from a litter.  

My Birth, 1932 by Frida Kahlo
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A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo

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If You Think You’re a Nail, Everything Looks Like a Hammer

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Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.

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Saints Alive!: The Left Wags Its Finger, And Nothing Changes

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