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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. 

You can listen to it here.  

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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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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.

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