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“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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Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

This shit’s complicated

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My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

The history of urban centers is, in palpable ways, the history of their sex workers.

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk by [Chateauvert, Melinda]
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The Refusal to Fuck

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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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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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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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Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal

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

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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.

Mary Bryson, from "Resisterectomy"
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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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