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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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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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Make Marriage Work Like Disappearing Ink: Mexico Contemplates Two-year Marital Contracts

Imagine that: a world where marriage is not some sacrosanct institution which you tie yourself to in order to survive.

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

“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

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

“Neoliberalism’s Handiest Little Tool”: Against Equality Interview with Josh Pavan in No More Potlucks

You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.

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