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I’m willing to take unpopular stances not because I want to be a contrarian but because I’m interested in pursuing the truth of an analysis with integrity (and I have no patience for false modesty).


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Blood and Mucous: The Winter Update

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“I wanted, and want, to write because writing is connected to what I want to see happen and change in the world…I write myself into the world and out of it, I write my plans for the world every minute as I enter and reenter it.”


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

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Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in. 


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All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

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All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.


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Academia Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On Judith Butler and the MLA

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Nothing that Judith Butler represents is so fragile that it cannot survive without her.  


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A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

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This is a murder mystery without a murder.  Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that unravel […]


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Death by Celebrity: Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Lives We Flee

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Suicide isn’t something we can fully claim to understand, but it’s also not something we need to blame people for. 


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A Big Thank You, and a Quick Update

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For the Fourth: Taking a Break for a While

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Sumer Is Icumen In, At Last

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