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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

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The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Believe in Something: Corporate Wokeness Is Now Big Business

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Corporate wokeness is now big business, quite literally.


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Polyamory, Gay Nonprofits, Cindy McCain, Mary Poppins, and More: Update, February 22

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Liam Neeson and the Erasure of the Idea of the Past

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February 14, 2019

 


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Politics

Cindy McCain: When Adoption Looks Like Trafficking

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Her own adoption looks a lot like human trafficking, even if wrapped in diplomatic immunity and the power that comes naturally to the very wealthy


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mary Poppins Returns, and Not Much Happens

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It feels like every character is bounding out of the screen asking you, Do you feel that child-like sense of wonder yet? Well, DO you?


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

Jason Momoa, Aquaman, and the Queer Art of Friendship

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Excerpt: If “queer” means anything, and if we queers have given anything to the world, it’s a combination of sex and love that stretches the imagination and the concept of friendship. 


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I’m willing to take unpopular stances not because I want to be a contrarian but because I’m interested in pursuing the truth of an analysis with integrity (and I have no patience for false modesty).


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

On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

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She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.


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Blood and Mucous: The Winter Update

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“I wanted, and want, to write because writing is connected to what I want to see happen and change in the world…I write myself into the world and out of it, I write my plans for the world every minute as I enter and reenter it.”


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