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

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.

Conrad Castonguay
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Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

An Interview with me and Ralowe T. Ampu for Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Captive Genders
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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Modesty

Excerpt: Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.

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

My WBEZ (NPR Chicago) interview about Illinois Civil Unions

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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Interview with John D’Emilio about Allan Bérubé’s “My Desire for History”

My Desire for History