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

Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

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Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.


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Let Defeat Sit In Your Bones Or, Forget Amnesia

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Yasmin's Media Appearances

My Radio Appearance on the Divisive Show, Talking about the Problems with Love in Social Justice and Art

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Mr. Holmes and The Case of the Aging Sleuth

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March 14, 2016

 


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

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More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings. 


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Matt Damon and the Case against Coming Out

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It’s not that queerness has to be resisted or kept a mystery, but that heterosexuality is always a work in progress.


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It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

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Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.


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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

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The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.


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

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

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No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.


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Gay Marriage Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King

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As gay marriage becomes legal everywhere in the United States, marriage activists will eventually drop their pretenses at being inclusive.


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