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Immigration Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

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Politics

On Death and Exceptionalism

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Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

Excerpt: But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.

Vintage Family - Family, Parents, Vintage, Children
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Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.

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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Mourdock, Donnelly, Abortion, and the Wrath of Gods

To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.

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Immigration Politics

Clash of the Neoliberals: Obama’s Shell Game

We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.

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Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

Excerpt: In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

So What If Teachers Are in It for the Money?

Excerpt: Love is not an antidote to neoliberalism but the whole point of it.