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Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.

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From Queer To Gay: The Rise and Fall of Milo

Excerpt: What brought Milo down was not his queerness, which had always been flamboyantly on display and fetishised by the Right and the Left, but that he became, with the few short seconds of a video clip, irrevocably gay.

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Lambda Literary Stops Being Literary

Lambda, you have no damned right to call yourself “literary” by any measure.

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.  

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Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

 Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other. 

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My New QED Piece on Queer Theory and the Neoliberal University: We Were There, We Are Here, Where Are We?

We are here, we were there. We were never going shopping.

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

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How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

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