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Every President Is a Sociopath

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

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It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

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The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mary Poppins Returns, and Not Much Happens

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It feels like every character is bounding out of the screen asking you, Do you feel that child-like sense of wonder yet? Well, DO you?


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

On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

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She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.


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

All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

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All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.


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Chicago Chronicles

Hyde Park: Where Food Goes to Die

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What kind of culinary omerta survives in Hyde Park to keep its restaurants at such a depth of mediocrity?


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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

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This is a murder mystery without a murder.  Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that unravel […]


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

If You Think You’re a Nail, Everything Looks Like a Hammer

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Labour Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

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