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Gay Marriage Yasmin's Media Appearances

Ryan Conrad and I Present on Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage

“Contrary to what some people believe, it is not just conservative heterosexual institutions that criticize the gay-marriage movement. Although their reasoning is different, queer activists also have their criticisms.”

Ryan Conrad and I unveiled the first Against Equality book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, at my beloved Bezazian branch of the Chicago Public Library.  Andrew Davis, my longtime editor at Windy City Times generously covered the event.  We had about 30 people in attendance, and could not have been more thrilled with the conversation. 
A little-known fact: Ryan and I have been working on the book for over a year, but this was the first time we met in person. 

You can read the article here.  Image by Andrew Davis. 

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

Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

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Gay Marriage

A “Curvey” nomination AND an “amicable discussion about smashing capitalism in history” in Time Out Chicago!

UPDATING WITH PDF, please check back.

It has been a while since I posted here, but now that the Against Equality book is published, things will start winding down and I will be posting with the same regularity. Much has been happening, and here are just a couple of highlights.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing

Yasmin on the front page of Chicago Sun-Times [September 23, 2009]

This image (soon to be replaced by a larger one, bear with us) appeared on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times. Yasmin was interviewed for a cover story titled, “Are singles getting a raw deal?” which appeared on September 23, 2009 to mark Singles Week.

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

Yasmin featured in Tikkun article, “The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics”

“A radical rethinking of what makes for a just world.”

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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

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

What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible. 

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Politics

Michael Bloomberg: King of the World

Only Michael Bloomberg would actually have the audacity to pretend that proffering his massive fortune – and access to the fortunes of others – is somehow indicative of “independence” and the ability to “speak plainly about common sense solutions.”

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