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Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

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Terry Gross and Toni Morrison on Race, or Not

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Dude’s Response to the Steven Salaita Case

“Duuuuuuuudes, what were you thinking?”

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On Books and Publishing Politics

My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad

This is a dense and densely argued book, in the best way.

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Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter

This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is.  

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

Travel, Passports, and the Differences between Expats and Immigrants

Excerpt: Koutonin appears peeved that he and others, perhaps more broadly the entrepreneurs he writes for in his regular blog, don’t get to enjoy the class privilege of being expatriates.  

Barge Haulers on the Volga
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We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir

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Your Sex Is Not Radical

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extent to which you fuck up capitalism.  

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

The Secret History of Gay Marriage

Excerpt: When the secret history of gay marriage is finally written, it will reveal that gay marriage was foisted upon a community with few resources, held hostage by a wealthy few.

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