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The GRANDMOTHER of All Updates

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Remember the rule: Dance like you’re alone in your living room.  Email like every word you spit out could one day become part of something like a Jenny Holzer series set in Times Square.  With your name and address attached.


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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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Current Mood: An Update

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On the one hand, hurrah, lots to write about.  On the other hand, it feels like a real struggle to produce work that takes on nuanced, critical positions that don’t simply pretend that everything that’s happening is part of a new horror.


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

From Queer To Gay: The Rise and Fall of Milo

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What brought Milo down was not his queerness, which had always been flamboyantly on display and fetishised by the Right and the Left, but that he became, with the few short seconds of a video clip, irrevocably gay.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour Politics

Saints Alive!: The Left Wags Its Finger, And Nothing Changes

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If we frame political questions in terms of whether or not we can like each other or the ones we claim to fight for, and whether or not we’re being really, really nice to each other, our struggles are doomed and, frankly, we deserve to lose.


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

Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown: Or, When Critics Respond To A Woman Who Lives Like A Man

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Both Variety and the Times describe Weisz’s character as a “femme fatale,” even though there’s no hint that she enters her various lives by feminine wiles.


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“March as Feminists, Not As Women” Now Up On Verso’s Blog

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A women’s march is terrified of or angry at a monstrous man, a feminist one understands how to vanquish the system that birthed him. Tomorrow, march as a feminist, not as a woman.


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

Should You March Against Trump?

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To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Lambda Literary Stops Being Literary

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Lambda, you have no damned right to call yourself “literary” by any measure.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Killing You Softly with Her Dreams: Arianna Huffington’s War on Sleep

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“I cried to dream again.” —Caliban, The Tempest


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