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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Kevin Barnhurst’s Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents

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We have queered capitalism, and are paying the price. 


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

Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse

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“What had me worried was that I was an artsy, thirty-four-year-old man who needed to confront whether I was really talented or just gay.”


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Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand?

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Relocating and/or moving between two countries can be difficult and taxing but that, my friends, is not exile.  That’s mobility.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

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Excerpt: We have since attempted to scrub ourselves clean of the unconscious.


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Jennifer Parello’s Dateland

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We have convinced ourselves that being happy and being interesting are two incommensurable states of being. 


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Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism

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‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.”


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Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex

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We are being screwed, my friends, and not in a good way.


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An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

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We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.


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Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

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“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”


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Nicola Griffith’s Always

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Money is a great thing to have in real life, but it makes for a lousy plot device in a novel.


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