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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya

In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC and the Illusion of a Grassroots Movement

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Blaming Media for Sunil Tripathi’s Death

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex

Cut Schools! Build Prisons!

It’s also significant that the text of the bill specifically names “gang members,” code for youth of colour.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Gay Marriage’s Economic Underside

Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

I’m Profiled by Nico Lang on WBEZ’s Blog

“We often believe that queerness resists neoliberalism, and it really doesn’t.”

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cause

There has never been a left case for gay marriage.

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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Hate Crimes, Exceptionalism, and the State’s Order to Kill

When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place.  And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.

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Immigration Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT

I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison.  We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters. 

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Doug Henwood about Against Equality’s “Prisons Will Not Protect You”

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