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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Pandemic

WeWork, Or Give People Money

Money is a construct.

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Politics

No, Neera Tanden Was Not Cancelled over Her Tweets

The point of politics is to keep its ugliness hidden, not out in open view. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

AOC and the Weaponisation of Trauma

Excerpt: It is a particular irony of the times we live in that a woman of colour helps to suspend any ongoing awareness of the deathliness of American history by retelling her personal trauma. 

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Feminism Politics

What Does Your Politician Mean to You?

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On Books and Publishing

Buy That Book!

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Feminism On Books and Publishing

On Jane Austen’s Frederic and Elfrida

As if marital forms and not marriage itself were the problem

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Yasmin's Media Appearances

Current Affairs Podcast: The Arts Industry, In Two Parts

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Daily Posts for Thanksgiving Week

I’m taking a break this week to put various kinds of houses in order, including my literal one.

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Pandemic

Sad

Our only option is to let the sadness seep in. 

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

On Mary Wollstonecraft and Public/Pubic Art

In a sense, every statue of a male intellectual has him with his schlong out, even if you can’t actually see said schlong.