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On Books and Publishing

Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free

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Those who write for free or very little simply because they can afford to are scabs.


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

David Munar will head Howard Brown center [includes video interview]

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Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.


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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

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Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. […]


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

Feminism Beyond the Hashtag, Or, Follow the Money

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At the end of the day, nothing is about feminism if it isn’t also about dismantling the exploitation of capitalism.


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Politics

A Socialist Alderman for Chicago?

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You might ask: What is the political agenda of the average Chicago socialist?  That, my friends, is a mystery.


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

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

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“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

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Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.


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Reporting

UIC hosts reception on feminist scholarship

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The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted a reception for six scholars who have recently published books on gender, race,and sexuality. The event was held at the Institute’s offices Oct. 30 at the UIC campus.


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Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

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Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”


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