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HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens

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It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.  


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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

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“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.

Mary Bryson, from "Resisterectomy"

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UPDATES: The Omnibus Edition

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We’re all very comfortable demanding that our food and consumer goods be ethically sourced—why not demand the same of your reading material?


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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Review of Trash Animals

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What makes a trash animal? 


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

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We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.

Kelly-Cassidy.jpg

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

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Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.


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UIC hosts reception on feminist scholarship

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The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted a reception for six scholars who have recently published books on gender, race,and sexuality. The event was held at the Institute’s offices Oct. 30 at the UIC campus.


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Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

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“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”


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

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

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If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards.

Toilet in Uganda, by Sustainable Sanitation.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.


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