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Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems

Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.

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On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.

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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.

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Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.

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Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

Excerpt: In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.

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The Politics of Storytelling

Extract: We are not connected by the truth or universality of our experiences because our experiences are not universal.  Instead, we are connected by the systemic links between the oppressions that grind us down.

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In Defense of Sluts

What, pray tell, if Fluke is indeed a slut?

Venus of Urbino
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Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.

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Fuck Love

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

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“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex