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Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

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We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

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Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.


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UIC hosts reception on feminist scholarship

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The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted a reception for six scholars who have recently published books on gender, race,and sexuality. The event was held at the Institute’s offices Oct. 30 at the UIC campus.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

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“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.’”


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

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

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If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards. Toilet in Uganda, by Sustainable Sanitation.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.


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Academia On Books and Publishing

On Paul de Man

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I’m also struck by the extremely reductive and sweeping generalisations being made about theory. Criticism of the same would be more worthwhile if it didn’t come from such an anti-intellectual space.


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Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

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Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks Faggotry, San Francisco

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“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately. “


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

Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

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Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.


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