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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Anti-gay adoption bill narrowly defeated in committee by seven votes to six

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Breaking News Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011 In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.


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On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bright Life, Big Sex: The Susie Bright Interview

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“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Yasmin featured in Tikkun article, “The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics”

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“A radical rethinking of what makes for a just world.”


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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

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All around us, animals penetrate capital.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

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You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.


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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

DADT and the Silence / Silencing of Queer Anti-War Voices

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Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.


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

Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

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By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out. 


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

Lesbian teen pregnancy rates

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“I’m really tired of the emphasis on the closet…”


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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

POW-WOW prepares to wow Chicago

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She is acutely aware of how the term “safe space” translates differently for women, depending on their ethnic and racial background, and that white women have historically been reluctant to make it out to what might be defined as a “Black space.”


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