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

Danièle Watts, Sexual Respectability, and Talking to Cops

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Watts’ insistence on simply having experienced pleasure while fully clothed does nothing really to advance a more complicated idea of what counts as pleasure in public.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Laverne Cox and the Cost of Celebrity

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It’s time we, especially those of us in the radical queer community, realised that there are limits to celebrity.


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Academia

Steven Salaita and the Myth of Academic Freedom

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For large swaths of graduate students, adjuncts, tenure track faculty, and even some tenured faculty, the notion of academic freedom has always been suspect anyway.  


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

Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

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At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.


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

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

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If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Somaly Mam, Nicholas Kristof, and the Real Sex Trafficking Story

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Nicholas Kristof’s collected work on sex trafficking constitutes a masturbatory text, allowing do-gooders everywhere to stroke and erect their unspoken desires about rescuing sad, tormented women.


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

Is Your Reading Material Ethically Sourced?

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When you share articles from sources that don’t pay their writers even when they can afford to or when you support the work of an editor who takes pay but doesn’t bother to pay writers, you’re contributing to the increase in scab labour in publishing.  


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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media

Paul Krugman, CUNY, and the fallacy of “The 99%”

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The problem can only be resolved if we do away with adjuncts entirely.


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

Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

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When the public battle between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow first began, I knew immediately that it would get ugly. But even I didn’t expect the bitterness, anger, rage, and bile that would spew forth. 1

 

From all sides.

 


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