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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men

It’s not the fag hag who’s dead—it’s the fag.

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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”

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Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make

When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh.

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Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism

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Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.

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Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography

Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo.

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A Different Take on Irshad Manji

She fully understands that history is made by those in power.  She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. 

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American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity

Excerpt: Sex trafficking stories are symptomatic of our uneasy relationship with a new global economy.

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The Gay Movement is Over

The fight for gay marriage directly contributes to inequality in America.

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Uncovering Kenji Yoshino’s Covering

Talking about the hidden costs of covering will appeal to those who like the book’s reliance on the idea that accepting diversity and difference solves our problems.