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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

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You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.


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

Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible. 


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Michael Bloomberg: King of the World

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Only Michael Bloomberg would actually have the audacity to pretend that proffering his massive fortune – and access to the fortunes of others – is somehow indicative of “independence” and the ability to “speak plainly about common sense solutions.”


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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Loving Hate: Why Hate Crimes Legislation is a Bad Idea

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Is jailing people for their prejudice really going to curtail bigotry and prejudice? 


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Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Legalize Gay, Or: So You Think You’re Illegal?

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This t-shirt proves that gay marriage supporters aren’t afraid to exploit other struggles in an effort to legitimize themselves as the most marginalized.


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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Homophobia and Israel/Palestine or, What’s political about “Queer?”: Some thoughts

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The idea that queer events/“pride” can somehow be separated from the political lives of queers is an impossible one. 


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

Which of the Busted Prostitutes Is A Man?: On NBC’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady”

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We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations. 


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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

DADT and the Silence / Silencing of Queer Anti-War Voices

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Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.


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

Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

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By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out. 


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

Lesbian teen pregnancy rates

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“I’m really tired of the emphasis on the closet…”


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