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

My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

The history of urban centers is, in palpable ways, the history of their sex workers.

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk by [Chateauvert, Melinda]
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Immigration On Books and Publishing

Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish

Our work and analyses face the greatest obstacles not from the familiar bogey-man, the Right, but from a Left which is terrified of being called racist because it has painted itself into the corner of identitarianism, where politics is judged solely by the history of oppressions that can be claimed.

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Immigration Labour

“Undocumented”: How an Identity Ended a Movement

Excerpt: Capital and capitalism flow unimpeded through the body of the “Undocumented and Unafraid” immigrant figure, whose only purpose is to solidify the presence of a benevolent neoliberal state through a litany of affective narratives.

The Immigrants' Ship

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On Books and Publishing

Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free

Excerpt: Those who write for free or very little simply because they can afford to are scabs.

Machinery Painting - South Wall Of A Mural Depicting Detroit Industry by Diego Rivera
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Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Refusal to Fuck

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Politics

“Yes, But What’s YOUR Solution?”

The fact is that there can be no remedy without a proper diagnosis.

Eugène Delacroix - Le 28 Juillet. La Liberté guidant le peuple.jpg
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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration

On Malayalam and Melancholia

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Yasmin's Media Appearances

Corey Robin’s Generous Shout-Out to Me

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Interview with Laverne Cox in In These Times

“I’d be doing myself and my community a disservice if I didn’t speak in an intersectional way.”

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Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing

My Review of “The Marrying Kind?” Is in In These Times

No amount of fisting, fucking, fellatio, cunninglus or S/M…actually shifts the meaning of marriage within the state itself.