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Aping Revolution: Nostalgia Trap Episode on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

All that and James Franco!

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

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.

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Adopting Difference: Race, Sex, and the Archaeology of Power in the Farrow-Allen Case

Taking all these intertwining histories into account reveals an archaeology of power. This is not just a history of Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state.

Originally published May 3, 2014

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On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other. 

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On That Game of Thrones Finale

It’s like hooking up with an ex who is only bound to disappoint.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.

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On Liam Neeson and the Erasure of the Idea of the Past

In this context, time as we understand it no longer exists, and has shifted into a permanent state of the ever-present; social media has served to flatten out time.  There is no “was” in this scenario, only an “is.” We suffer from a permanent state of is-ness, engorged with anger.

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Mary Poppins Returns, and Not Much Happens

It feels like every character is bounding out of the screen asking you, Do you feel that child-like sense of wonder yet? Well, DO you?

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

Jason Momoa, Aquaman, and the Queer Art of Friendship

Excerpt: If “queer” means anything, and if we queers have given anything to the world, it’s a combination of sex and love that stretches the imagination and the concept of friendship. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.