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“Neoliberalism’s Handiest Little Tool”: Against Equality Interview with Josh Pavan in No More Potlucks

You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.

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My WBEZ (NPR Chicago) interview about Illinois Civil Unions

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Ryan Conrad and I Present on Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage

“Contrary to what some people believe, it is not just conservative heterosexual institutions that criticize the gay-marriage movement. Although their reasoning is different, queer activists also have their criticisms.”

Ryan Conrad and I unveiled the first Against Equality book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, at my beloved Bezazian branch of the Chicago Public Library.  Andrew Davis, my longtime editor at Windy City Times generously covered the event.  We had about 30 people in attendance, and could not have been more thrilled with the conversation. 
A little-known fact: Ryan and I have been working on the book for over a year, but this was the first time we met in person. 

You can read the article here.  Image by Andrew Davis. 

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Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

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A “Curvey” nomination AND an “amicable discussion about smashing capitalism in history” in Time Out Chicago!

UPDATING WITH PDF, please check back.

It has been a while since I posted here, but now that the Against Equality book is published, things will start winding down and I will be posting with the same regularity. Much has been happening, and here are just a couple of highlights.

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Yasmin on the front page of Chicago Sun-Times [September 23, 2009]

This image (soon to be replaced by a larger one, bear with us) appeared on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times. Yasmin was interviewed for a cover story titled, “Are singles getting a raw deal?” which appeared on September 23, 2009 to mark Singles Week.

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Yasmin featured in Tikkun article, “The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics”

“A radical rethinking of what makes for a just world.”

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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Legalize Gay, Or: So You Think You’re Illegal?

This t-shirt proves that gay marriage supporters aren’t afraid to exploit other struggles in an effort to legitimize themselves as the most marginalized.

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Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.