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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Charles Manson and Gay Marriage

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“Seems oddly appropriate since marriage is a prison sentence.”  

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

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Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.  


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Chicago Chronicles People and Places to Support

Support Chicago Freedom School for A Better World!

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I’m writing to ask people to support an organisation that is one of the few near and dear to my heart: Chicago Freedom School.  On November 6, 2014, CFS will be hosting its Moments of Justice event, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

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Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.  


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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

“Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis”: New Piece in Contrivers’ Review

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Class Shock: the feeling of inadequacy and anger that arises when one’s class aspirations have been trampled underfoot.

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On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

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The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Ello and The Lily Pad

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I occasionally stick my tongue out, hoping to catch a fly in the shape of a response.


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

Danièle Watts, Sexual Respectability, and Talking to Cops

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Watts’ insistence on simply having experienced pleasure while fully clothed does nothing really to advance a more complicated idea of what counts as pleasure in public.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Laverne Cox and the Cost of Celebrity

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It’s time we, especially those of us in the radical queer community, realised that there are limits to celebrity.


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

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The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.  


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