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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings. 

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

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On Books and Publishing Politics

My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad

This is a dense and densely argued book, in the best way.

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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 extent 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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