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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex

America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…

Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) - Piet Mondrian
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Gay Marriage Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Kim Davis Didn’t Deserve to Go to Jail

We have forgotten that prison is no laughing matter, especially for queer people.

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Prison industrial complex

Are Private Prisons Really the Problem?

Are we in danger of forgetting that it’s not the profits but the prisons that should be abolished?

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Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.

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On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.

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

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.

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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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Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens

Excerpt: It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.  

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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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Academia Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.