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

We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards an Anti-Memoir

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Excerpt: There was an odd comfort in being a stranger.


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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

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The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.


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Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

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Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?


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

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

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“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Ronan Farrow Bites the Dust, But Media Myths Continue

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At the heart of the Farrow hiring was and is the biggest lie both media and consumers like to hold up: that what matters most is not substance or talent, but the ability to attract attention.


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Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

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The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.


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

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

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No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.


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Gay Marriage Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King

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As gay marriage becomes legal everywhere in the United States, marriage activists will eventually drop their pretenses at being inclusive.


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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics”

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When I posted my blog on Rolling Stone’s mis-reporting of the University of Virginia campus rape stor


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

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

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I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”


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