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Chicago Freedom School and Moments of Justice, 2019

There are very, very few organisations I truly support and Chicago Freedom School, an organisation devoted to nurturing and creating youth-led social justice and education, is one of them. Please read this and support them as they ready for their annual Moments of Justice event. 

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

On Desire

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Update: On Publishing, Plagiarism, Philz Coffee, and Persistence

If there is one thing I’m really happy about, it’s my writing.  I’m exploring new topics and even genres and very happy stretching my muscles with all the new work I’ve got planned.  

Autumn Landscape with Four Trees by Vincent Van Gogh Framed Painting Print on Wrapped Canvas
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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Philz Coffee in Hyde Park

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Death Is Your Gift: A Midsummer Update

I’ve gone through more life-changing experiences in the course of a few months than most experience in a few years, and I think that’s so true.  At the same time, my life is also not that different from the millions of others who operate in an economy that now defines us as the “precariat.” 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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Academia

On Graduation

I grew weary of all the anti-intellectualism around education, so prevalent even among some leftists who are calling for an end to academia.  Here’s a really short version of a “graduation speech” of sorts. 

The girl at the desk, 1934 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939, Russia) | Oil Painting | WahooArt.com
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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

On That Game of Thrones Finale

It’s like hooking up with an ex who is only bound to disappoint.

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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

“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.