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Gabriella Turnaturi’s Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations

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By Gabriella Turnaturi; University of Chicago Press; 145 pages


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Ruth Perkinson’s Piper’s Someday

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The figures of the lower class like, Victor and Clover, are pitted against lesbians and gays who are, it seems, uniformly heroic and literate and kind. 


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Minority workshop focuses on LGBTQ families

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LGBTQ families are frequently non-normative, and not just because they’re headed by queer people.  Queer families may consist of single women raising children with sperm donors who maintains links with their offspring.  Two men might raise children together even after breaking up.

All this becomes more complicated when race and/or ethnicity enters the picture.  How does the media respond to such unlikely configurations and what can—and should—LGBTQ families do to effect the representations of their families?


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Sex workers hold local conference

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Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national group that works on the decriminalization of prostitution, held its third annual conference in Chicago.  Members attended panels on topics like sex trafficking and the issues facing transgender sex workers.


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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Alistair McCartney’s The End of the World Book: A Novel

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Written by Alistair McCartney; Terrace Books; 306 pages


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Bash Back! makes point at parade

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Chicago’s annual Pride Parade is a popular spectacle for queer Chicagoans and their straight allies.  But even its most ardent supporters often wonder if Pride, meant to commemorate Stonewall, has retained its insurgent and activist roots. This year, a new group named Bash Back! decided to reclaim some of what it feels is the original […]


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Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood

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Does simply being out solve the problems of an industry that makes enormous profits while paying pittances to some?


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

Ready AND This Common Secret

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The ability to reproduce and the ability to cease reproduction are mired in a complex entanglement of access and privilege


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Nancy Polikoff’s Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law

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Polikoff shows why it’s necessary to separate marriage from the state’s responsibilities.


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Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?

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The language of miracle-creation also obfuscates the embodied realities that face transgender people and/or people who raise children.


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