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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My review of the Queer Art Show, “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Reader

It leaves open the many questions it raises: What do we mean by queer art today? Who makes it? Do we still need it?

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Howard Brown terminates several staff

Following whispers that Howard Brown Health Center is set to hire a new leader of the organization, as reported last week in Windy City Times, comes news of employment terminations at the agency.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

Nonprofit Housing: The Soup Kitchen Approach to “Social Justice”

“Why does a willingness to accept lower wages (much lower wages than for-profits) seem to be an indicator or qualification for one’s job in the nonprofit sector?”

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

HBHC could see new director soon

Howard Brown Health Center is due to make significant changes in the following weeks, including possibly hiring a new leader, according to sources contacted by Windy City Times.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot: What censoring online porn means for queer youth (and everyone else), In These Times

Ultimately, neoliberal controls will make access limitless for the affluent and miserly for the rest.

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Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader

She takes their claims at face value.

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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.