In the push to redefine themselves as “undocumented,” the undocuqueers have essentially used the “illegals” as their bargaining chips.
Have we gone so far down the path of exceptionalism that we cannot find a way to unstick ourselves from its gooey, affective mess?
Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.
But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.
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Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut
I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.
To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.
We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.
If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.
In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.
