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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park

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On Power Couples

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What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

Blue II (1961) - Joan Miro
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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Terry Gross and Toni Morrison on Race, or Not

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Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter

This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is.  

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Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Sex Is Not Radical

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extent to which you fuck up capitalism.