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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.

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Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence. 

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Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

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Are We Fabulous Yet?

What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks Faggotry, San Francisco

“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately.“

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by [Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein]
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Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.

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What’s REALLY Weird About This iPhone Story?

iPhones are apparently the Beanie Babies – remember them? – of the phone world.

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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The End of San Francisco

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

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Angela Davis on Guns, Violence, and History

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Summer Update

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