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Yasmin's Media Appearances

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Fight: How the Death of DADT Extends the Reach of U.S. Militarization, Buzzsaw interview, September 30, 2011

“None of us have ever said that it’s not discriminatory to have a policy that excludes gay people. What we are saying is that we’re against discrimination, but we’re also against war.”

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

DOMA Repeal: Interview with Denise Morris on KBOO, March 7, 2011

DOMA Repeal: Interview with Denise Morris on KBOO, March 7, 2011

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

Interview withTime Out Chicago, Oct. 6, 2010

Interview with Time Out Chicago: Oct. 6, 2010

PDF coming soon. Contact me if you’re interested.

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

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?

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

Against Equality in Australia!

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Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Newt Gingrich: Polyamorist?

Caught between people who wanted me to be part of their polyamorous relationship, my response has usually been to flee.  Really, people, can we just fuck and let it be?

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Looking for the Math and Science in Everything, And Failing to See the Arts

Just, please, don’t pretend it’s anything more than knitting in the round and don’t pretend to be engaging in some profoundly subversive form of politics.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Your Debt Is Not A Moral Failure

Excerpt: Consider this: In an economy where home ownership is cast in such deeply racialised terms – in terms of who can buy and where – debt became a way to offer the false hope of citizenship itself.

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

Fuck Love

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

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