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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

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We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.


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Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

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Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.


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Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Are We Fabulous Yet?

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What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The End of San Francisco

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“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cause

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There has never been a left case for gay marriage.


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

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

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In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.


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

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

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Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.


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Animals On Books and Publishing

Yvonne Zipter’s Like Some Bookie God

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A greyhound is a haiku of a dog.


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History

CHM looks at queer spaces, past and present

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“We have lost touch with the … pleasure of danger, we risk losing our difference,” The Chicago History Museum, 1601 N.  Clark, hosted a two-person presentation on Chicago’s queer spaces January 28.


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