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

Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

This shit’s complicated

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Scabs and the Seduction of Neoliberalism

If you’re going to be a working writer or any kind of “creative professional,” demand the same kind of respect you would give to someone who fixes your plumbing.  

Machinery Painting - Detroit Industry  North Wall by Diego Rivera
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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Interview with Laverne Cox in In These Times

“I’d be doing myself and my community a disservice if I didn’t speak in an intersectional way.”

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. Warrior Marks was controversial amongst many who opposed Walker and Parmar’s political stance against FGM, but cemented a long-standing collaboration and friendship between the two women.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My review of the Queer Art Show, “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Reader

It leaves open the many questions it raises: What do we mean by queer art today? Who makes it? Do we still need it?

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot: What censoring online porn means for queer youth (and everyone else), In These Times

Ultimately, neoliberal controls will make access limitless for the affluent and miserly for the rest.

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.

Mary Bryson, from "Resisterectomy"
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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“White Chick Behind Bars”: My Review of Orange is the New Black, Season 1

The show can’t conceive of the fact that the biggest hurdle for most of the women in prison with Chapman is not that they made ‘bad choices,’ but that their future choices are foreclosed by prison.