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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cause

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There has never been a left case for gay marriage.


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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Hate Crimes, Exceptionalism, and the State’s Order to Kill

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When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place.  And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.


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Immigration Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT

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I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison.  We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters.  You can listen to it here.  


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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Doug Henwood about Against Equality’s “Prisons Will Not Protect You”

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

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

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In the push to redefine themselves as “undocumented,” the undocuqueers have essentially used the “illegals” as their bargaining chips.


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Prison industrial complex

On Death and Exceptionalism

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Have we gone so far down the path of exceptionalism that we cannot find a way to unstick ourselves from its gooey, affective mess? 


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Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

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But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.


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Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

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I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.


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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Mourdock, Donnelly, Abortion, and the Wrath of Gods

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To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.


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