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Academia Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

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“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”


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Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

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The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.


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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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Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

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Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.  


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Animals

PETA: Free the Animals, Hurt the Humans

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If we are to begin thinking about and ending cruelty to animals, we need to ask how our economic and cultural structures enable us to be as cruel, even if in different ways, to humans.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

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The history of urban centers is, in palpable ways, the history of their sex workers.


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Immigration On Books and Publishing

Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish

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Our work and analyses face the greatest obstacles not from the familiar bogey-man, the Right, but from a Left which is terrified of being called racist because it has painted itself into the corner of identitarianism, where politics is judged solely by the history of oppressions that can be claimed.


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Immigration Labour

“Undocumented”: How an Identity Ended a Movement

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Capital and capitalism flow unimpeded through the body of the “Undocumented and Unafraid” immigrant figure, whose only purpose is to solidify the presence of a benevolent neoliberal state through a litany of affective narratives.


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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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Politics

A Socialist Alderman for Chicago?

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You might ask: What is the political agenda of the average Chicago socialist?  That, my friends, is a mystery.


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