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“Forget Stonewall,” in The Gay and Lesbian Review

The point in forgetting Stonewall is to hold on to the much more difficult task of thinking about “event-ness” and history in more complicated ways.

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MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.

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Believe in Something: Corporate Wokeness Is Now Big Business

Corporate wokeness is now big business, quite literally.

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Polyamory, Gay Nonprofits, Cindy McCain, Mary Poppins, and More: Update, February 22

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Review of Gay Inc

The nonprofit world runs on the fumes of exhaustion, desperate hope, and a general sense of futility exuded by its denizens.

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Current Affairs Podcast: Trauma, Diversity, Comedy and the Non-profit Industrial Complex

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

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On Liam Neeson and the Erasure of the Idea of the Past

In this context, time as we understand it no longer exists, and has shifted into a permanent state of the ever-present; social media has served to flatten out time.  There is no “was” in this scenario, only an “is.” We suffer from a permanent state of is-ness, engorged with anger.

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Cindy McCain: When Adoption Looks Like Trafficking

Excerpt: In the case of the children, she gives one away to friends — as one might pass on an extra pup from a litter.  

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Mary Poppins Returns, and Not Much Happens

It feels like every character is bounding out of the screen asking you, Do you feel that child-like sense of wonder yet? Well, DO you?

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