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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Don’t Let Sean Penn’s Joke Distract You From All That Other White People Stuff At the Oscars

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When it comes to internet squalls, we continue, endlessly, to take our aim at easy and often misplaced targets.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Ronan Farrow Bites the Dust, But Media Myths Continue

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At the heart of the Farrow hiring was and is the biggest lie both media and consumers like to hold up: that what matters most is not substance or talent, but the ability to attract attention.


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Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

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The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.


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On Books and Publishing

Harper Lee Announces a Second Book, And Conspiracy Theories Break Loose

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It makes sense that Lee never produced another book.  Who could, with such a weight on their shoulders?  


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

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

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No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.

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Gay Marriage Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King

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As gay marriage becomes legal everywhere in the United States, marriage activists will eventually drop their pretenses at being inclusive.

Portrait of King

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Academia Labour

Solidarity without Affect: The MLA Subconference Enters Its Second Year

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“Our struggle needs to be understood as capable of generating material and theoretical gains for us all, not less for the few through a misguided ‘race to the top.'”

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Animals

Season’s Greetings, Love, and Molecules

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“Did I make you happy?” is what I would ask him, and I think, I hope, I trust the answer would be yes. 


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics”

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Statistics are like Rorschach tests; they can be made to reveal anything at all.  


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

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

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I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”


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