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Nicola Griffith’s Always

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Money is a great thing to have in real life, but it makes for a lousy plot device in a novel.


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Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

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Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.


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Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography

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Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo.


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Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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As her journey progresses, however, Miles remains a lesbian while her leftist politics disappear. 


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A Different Take on Irshad Manji

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She fully understands that history is made by those in power.  She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. 


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Isle of Manji: Interview with Irshad Manji

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Interview with Walter Benn Michaels: Is celebrating all the stripes in the rainbow enough?

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What that actually means is that both the Left and the Right in this country have succeeded in defining the center of politics as how you feel about identity. And as long as that’s true, that means the Right always wins.


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Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble with Diversity

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We no longer care to think about how to make the conditions of poverty (and hence the poor) disappear; we’d rather spend our resources freezing the culture of the poor in perpetuity.


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American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity

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Sex trafficking stories are symptomatic of our uneasy relationship with a new global economy.


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Gay Immigration (and) Inequality

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But is “family” necessarily part of a progressive reform agenda? 


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