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Fuck Love

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

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“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

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Bright Life, Big Sex: The Susie Bright Interview

“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”

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Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

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Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible. 

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Which of the Busted Prostitutes Is A Man?: On NBC’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady”

We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations. 

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Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.