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

Travel, Passports, and the Differences between Expats and Immigrants

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Koutonin appears peeved that he and others, perhaps more broadly the entrepreneurs he writes for in his regular blog, don’t get to enjoy the class privilege of being expatriates.  

Barge Haulers on the Volga

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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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Excerpt: There was an odd comfort in being a stranger.


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

Your Sex Is Not Radical

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

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

The Secret History of Gay Marriage

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When the secret history of gay marriage is finally written, it will reveal that gay marriage was foisted upon a community with few resources, held hostage by a wealthy few.


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Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Difference between Black and White Guilt

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Most of us are grappling with how to formulate a response that can do more than draw upon the two discursive inevitabilities.


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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

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The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.

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

Emma Sulkowicz’s Rape Video: Some Thoughts

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It also reflects the cultural identity of an art world that can no longer afford to take any real risks.  


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Jim Oleson, partner of historian John D’Emilio, dies

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Jim Oleson, 77, a longtime Chicago resident and partner of gay historian John D’Emilio, died at their home on April 4, surrounded by loved ones. He had severely weakened lungs and heart, and had recently begun home hospice care.


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Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

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Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?


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Academia Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

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“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”


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