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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Modesty

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Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Interview with John D’Emilio about Allan Bérubé’s “My Desire for History”

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Anti-gay adoption bill narrowly defeated in committee by seven votes to six

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Breaking News Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011 In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.


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Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

National Immigrant Justice Center files mass civil rights complaint on behalf of LGBT immigrant detainees

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Breaking News Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011 The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the […]


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On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bright Life, Big Sex: The Susie Bright Interview

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“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”


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Gay Marriage Yasmin's Media Appearances

Ryan Conrad and I Present on Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage

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“Contrary to what some people believe, it is not just conservative heterosexual institutions that criticize the gay-marriage movement. Although their reasoning is different, queer activists also have their criticisms.” Ryan Conrad and I unveiled the first Against Equality book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, at my beloved Bezazian branch of the Chicago Public […]


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

Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

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“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”


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

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

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For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.


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

Yasmin featured in Tikkun article, “The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics”

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“A radical rethinking of what makes for a just world.”


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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

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All around us, animals penetrate capital.


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