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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.  

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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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour Politics

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

If we frame political questions in terms of whether or not we can like each other or the ones we claim to fight for, and whether or not we’re being really, really nice to each other, our struggles are doomed and, frankly, we deserve to lose.

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Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.

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Should You March Against Trump?

To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.

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The New York Times Is The Daily Prophet

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Donald Trump Won Because Hillary Clinton Lost

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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