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Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Beth Richie on race, gender and the ‘prison nation’

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“I realized that in some ways the closing of the buildings doesn’t change all that much, because as we close more buildings, we put more people in ankle bracelets, under house arrest, or make their probation longer.”


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

ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya

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In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.


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

Gay Marriage’s Economic Underside

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Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.


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

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

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In the push to redefine themselves as “undocumented,” the undocuqueers have essentially used the “illegals” as their bargaining chips.


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

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But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.


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Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

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If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

So What If Teachers Are in It for the Money?

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Love is not an antidote to neoliberalism but the whole point of it.


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

Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts

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You want health care but not marriage or commitment? Tough titties. Get married or die.


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

‘Brother Outsider’ filmmaker Bennett Singer talks Bayard Rustin

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Out filmmaker Bennett Singer is the co-director and co-producer, with Nancy D. Kates, of the critically acclaimed 2003 film, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, about the gay, African-American civil-rights activist whom many consider the main organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.


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