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

Your Sex Is Not Radical

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How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extent to which you fuck up capitalism.  


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

The Secret History of Gay Marriage

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When the secret history of gay marriage is finally written, it will reveal that gay marriage was foisted upon a community with few resources, held hostage by a wealthy few.


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

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

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The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.


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

Emma Sulkowicz’s Rape Video: Some Thoughts

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It also reflects the cultural identity of an art world that can no longer afford to take any real risks.  


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Jim Oleson, partner of historian John D’Emilio, dies

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Jim Oleson, 77, a longtime Chicago resident and partner of gay historian John D’Emilio, died at their home on April 4, surrounded by loved ones. He had severely weakened lungs and heart, and had recently begun home hospice care.


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Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

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Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Ronan Farrow Bites the Dust, But Media Myths Continue

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At the heart of the Farrow hiring was and is the biggest lie both media and consumers like to hold up: that what matters most is not substance or talent, but the ability to attract attention.


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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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On Books and Publishing

Harper Lee Announces a Second Book, And Conspiracy Theories Break Loose

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It makes sense that Lee never produced another book.  Who could, with such a weight on their shoulders?  


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

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

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No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.


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