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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

David Munar will head Howard Brown center [includes video interview]

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Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.


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

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

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Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. […]


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

Feminism Beyond the Hashtag, Or, Follow the Money

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At the end of the day, nothing is about feminism if it isn’t also about dismantling the exploitation of capitalism.


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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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

Nonprofit Housing: The Soup Kitchen Approach to “Social Justice”

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“Why does a willingness to accept lower wages (much lower wages than for-profits) seem to be an indicator or qualification for one’s job in the nonprofit sector?”


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

HBHC could see new director soon

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Howard Brown Health Center is due to make significant changes in the following weeks, including possibly hiring a new leader, according to sources contacted by Windy City Times.


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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

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Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.


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

Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal

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No tragic dramas? Make them up! But, always: Confess and Reveal.


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Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens

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It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.  


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UPDATES: The Omnibus Edition

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We’re all very comfortable demanding that our food and consumer goods be ethically sourced—why not demand the same of your reading material?


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