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Exalted Slogans: The Curse of Radical Academic Discourse

Was there perhaps an indigenous tribe somewhere that had called upon Ciccariello-Maher to come save it, tweet by tweet, from persecution? None came forward to express gratitude for his bravery on their behalf.

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A Quick Update and a Schedule of Upcoming Pieces

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A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo

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Inclusion in the Atrocious, with Eli Massey

It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all. 

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A Big Thank You, and a Quick Update

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On Cultural Purity

If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.

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Frida Is Dead, and I Am Undone

I am completely undone, and am facing, for the first time in many years, life without one of my two great loves.

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For the Fourth: Taking a Break for a While

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Sumer Is Icumen In, At Last

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Summertime and the Censorship is Easy

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