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Academia Labour

Solidarity without Affect: The MLA Subconference Enters Its Second Year

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“Our struggle needs to be understood as capable of generating material and theoretical gains for us all, not less for the few through a misguided ‘race to the top.’”


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics”

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When I posted my blog on Rolling Stone’s mis-reporting of the University of Virginia campus rape stor


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Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

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I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Charles Manson and Gay Marriage

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“…oddly appropriate since marriage is a prison sentence.”


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

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The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.  


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

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At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

On Cravings, Illness, and Chana Masala

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I’ll be the first to admit that chana masala, like good or even decent pound cake, is best made from scratch but there’s a time and place for that, and a time and place for simply throwing everything into a pot and crossing your fingers that you end up with something edible. 


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Politics

“Yes, But What’s YOUR Solution?”

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The fact is that there can be no remedy without a proper diagnosis.


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

Feminism Beyond the Hashtag, Or, Follow the Money

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At the end of the day, nothing is about feminism if it isn’t also about dismantling the exploitation of capitalism.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

Nonprofit Housing: The Soup Kitchen Approach to “Social Justice”

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“Why does a willingness to accept lower wages (much lower wages than for-profits) seem to be an indicator or qualification for one’s job in the nonprofit sector?”


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