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Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter

This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is.  

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Sex Is Not Radical

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extet to which you fuck up capitalism.  

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Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?

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Politics

Gaza Is Not Ferguson

It’s popular and easy to talk and write about capitalism as being inherently racist and/or anti-Black, but the harder work involves an understanding of capitalism’s insidiousness, outside the mystifying tendencies of much of today’s race scholarship.

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Politics

“Yes, But What’s YOUR Solution?”

The fact is that there can be no remedy without a proper diagnosis.

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Politics

A Socialist Alderman for Chicago?

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Immigration Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

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Politics

On Death and Exceptionalism

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Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.

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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Mourdock, Donnelly, Abortion, and the Wrath of Gods

To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.