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Weekly Roundup: November 1, 2016

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Weekly Roundup: October 24, 2016

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In too many cases, we have relatively young editors or desperate adjuncts eagerly hoping to have graduate careers in academia or find adjunct gigs, assigned to “edit” famous or powerful academics who might have the influence to advance (or end) their careers.  


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

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Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.  


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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Meryl Streep Is in Costume as Florence Foster Jenkins

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Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.


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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

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To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.


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Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2016

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Hyde Park’s unique and increasingly deathly history as a neighbourhood that exposes the collusion between a major research university that continues to voraciously gobble up chunks of prime real estate while expelling its long-time residents. 


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Yasmin's Media Appearances

Some Interviews and Pieces about My Views on Orlando

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Steven Spielberg’s The BFG and the AMM

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July 5, 2016

 


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The Mother of All Updates

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Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

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Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.


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