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The Refusal to Fuck

Where are those who move on in life without marriage and children?

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

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. Warrior Marks was controversial amongst many who opposed Walker and Parmar’s political stance against FGM, but cemented a long-standing collaboration and friendship between the two women.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Feminism Beyond the Hashtag, Or, Follow the Money

At the end of the day, nothing is about feminism if it isn’t also about dismantling the exploitation of capitalism.

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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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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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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.'”

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

Excerpt: If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards.

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

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

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Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence. 

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