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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Howard Brown terminates several staff

Following whispers that Howard Brown Health Center is set to hire a new leader of the organization, as reported last week in Windy City Times, comes news of employment terminations at the agency.

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

HBHC could see new director soon

Howard Brown Health Center is due to make significant changes in the following weeks, including possibly hiring a new leader, according to sources contacted by Windy City Times.

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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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Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader

She takes their claims at face value.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal

No tragic dramas? Make them up! But, always: Confess and Reveal.

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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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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.

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.

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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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”