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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“Racism and the American Pit Bull” My Review of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.

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

Meryl Streep Is in Costume as Florence Foster Jenkins

Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.

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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power


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

Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

 Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other. 

Queer Clout
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Animals Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Piece on “Racism and the American Pit Bull” Is Now Online at Current Affairs

The links between “animality” and race have always been vividly present even if never explicitly discussed.

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Updates

Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2016

Hyde Park’s unique and increasingly deathly history as a neighbourhood that exposes the collusion between a major research university that continues to voraciously gobble up chunks of prime real estate while expelling its long-time residents. 

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Yasmin's Media Appearances

My Radio Appearance on the Divisive Show, Talking about the Problems with Love in Social Justice and Art

Radio
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Yasmin's Media Appearances

Some Interviews and Pieces about My Views on Orlando

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My New QED Piece on Queer Theory and the Neoliberal University: We Were There, We Are Here, Where Are We?

We are here, we were there. We were never going shopping.

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

Ghostbusters, Hillary Clinton, and Faux Feminism

 We’re not obliged to prop up faux feminism: We can and should expect films that actually make strong feminist statements embedded in excellent writing and character development.