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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

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But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.


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Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

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I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.


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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Mourdock, Donnelly, Abortion, and the Wrath of Gods

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To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.


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Immigration Politics

Clash of the Neoliberals: Obama’s Shell Game

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We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.


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Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

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If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.


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

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

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In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.


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

Bayard Rustin: A complex legacy

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The gay civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin was born a hundred years ago, on March 17, 1912. Considered the key organizer of the historical 1963 March on Washington, Rustin was involved in movements for racial and economic justice till his death in 1987. Yet, he is relatively unknown today and often deliberately stayed in the background, […]


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

‘Brother Outsider’ filmmaker Bennett Singer talks Bayard Rustin

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Out filmmaker Bennett Singer is the co-director and co-producer, with Nancy D. Kates, of the critically acclaimed 2003 film, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, about the gay, African-American civil-rights activist whom many consider the main organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

In Defense of Sluts

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What, pray tell, if Fluke is indeed a slut?


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

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

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Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?


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