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Patrick Johnson: Southern exposure

E.  Patrick Johnson is the author of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South, which consists largely of transcribed oral narratives.  Johnson, the department chair of performance studies and a professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University, began researching the book in 2004.  In October 2006, he began enacting solo performances and recreations of the narratives.  The performances (called “Pouring Tea”) are now part of his current book tour.  Windy City Times spoke to Johnson about his book; the accompanying performances and the lure of the South.

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Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape

It fails to ask a critical question: how do we counter the prevailing message that someone who is not in a relationship does not count?

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Kage Alan: School daze

“What does this mean to you? If it doesn’t mean any of these things, why are you here?”

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Nathaniel Frank in the line of “Fire”

“Now, when I talk of Enlightenment ideals: there is also a connection between Enlightenment and Imperialism, and I’m not trying to endorse imperialism.”

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Eddie Sarfaty’s Mental: Funny in the Head

Sarfaty is fearless about recounting his sex life and it’s a resolutely and unapologetic gay sex life. 

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Melissa Hart’s Gringa: A Contradictory Childhood

“My mother and I pretended allegiance to their Tupperware parties, to their Brownie troops, to their Sunday morning services at the Presbyterian Church.”

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When everything changed for Kairol Rosenthal

“We know how to take care of our own.”

Everything Changes: The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's by [Rosenthal, Kairol]
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Hillary Carlip’s À la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers

What and whom are we laughing at, exactly?

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Julia Serano forum focuses on trans community and sexism

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Gay Marriage Immigration

Gay marriage and queer immigration: Laboring over love

Queers are more than the sum of their romantic relationships.