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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.

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

Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal

No tragic dramas? Make them up! But, always: Confess and Reveal.

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On Books and Publishing

Writing and Wanking

We’re all such a bunch of pretentious wankers anyway.

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Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens

Excerpt: It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.  

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.

Mary Bryson, from "Resisterectomy"
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Updates

UPDATES: The Omnibus Edition

We’re all very comfortable demanding that our food and consumer goods be ethically sourced—why not demand the same of your reading material?

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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Review of Trash Animals

What makes a trash animal? 

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.

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Reporting

UIC hosts reception on feminist scholarship

The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted a reception for six scholars who have recently published books on gender, race,and sexuality. The event was held at the Institute’s offices Oct. 30 at the UIC campus.