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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. 

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Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic

A system that sees “predators” as beyond repair and thrusts them to the outermost regions of society also deeply pathologizes the “victims.”

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The Two Stories of Mukhtaran Bibi

Over and over again, history is forgotten in favor of narratives about “cultural difference.”

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Who Needs Hate?

The concept of hate crimes and hate crime legislation can never be part of a progressive agenda for social justice. 

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