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It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

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The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.  


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Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

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At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

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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

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This shit’s complicated


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

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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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Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Refusal to Fuck

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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

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“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’

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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

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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

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


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