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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Food Pantry Shortages: What’s the Real Story?

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Don’t give, agitate.  For better wages, for health care, and for eventually phasing Food Depositories out of business.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

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Excerpt: We have since attempted to scrub ourselves clean of the unconscious.


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Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism

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‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.”


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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex

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We are being screwed, my friends, and not in a good way.


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

Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

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Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books.


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On Books and Publishing

Craig Seymour’s All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C

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Sex, it turns out, says nothing about sexuality. 


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On Books and Publishing

An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

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We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.


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Animals On Books and Publishing

Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

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“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”


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

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”


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

Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make

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When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh.


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