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Immigration Politics

Clash of the Neoliberals: Obama’s Shell Game

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We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.


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Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

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If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.


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

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

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In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

So What If Teachers Are in It for the Money?

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Love is not an antidote to neoliberalism but the whole point of it.


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Hate Crime Legislation Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“Beyond Gay Marriage”: A roundtable discussion in In These Times

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“The people who are going to benefit the most from gay marriage will be the ones who already have the resources.” I was part of a roundtable discussion on what it means to get “Beyond Gay Marriage” in In These Times. Many thanks to Rebecca Burns for initiating this. An excerpt: It is probably true […]


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

The Politics of Storytelling

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We are not connected by the truth or universality of our experiences because our experiences are not universal.  Instead, we are connected by the systemic links between the oppressions that grind us down.


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

Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts

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You want health care but not marriage or commitment? Tough titties. Get married or die.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Bayard Rustin: A complex legacy

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The gay civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin was born a hundred years ago, on March 17, 1912. Considered the key organizer of the historical 1963 March on Washington, Rustin was involved in movements for racial and economic justice till his death in 1987. Yet, he is relatively unknown today and often deliberately stayed in the background, […]


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

‘Brother Outsider’ filmmaker Bennett Singer talks Bayard Rustin

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Out filmmaker Bennett Singer is the co-director and co-producer, with Nancy D. Kates, of the critically acclaimed 2003 film, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, about the gay, African-American civil-rights activist whom many consider the main organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

In Defense of Sluts

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What, pray tell, if Fluke is indeed a slut?


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