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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. 

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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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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

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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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