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Legalize Gay
I recently was walking past American Apparel and saw this shirt that said "Legalize Gay". I was running late for a meeting so I couldn't stop and purchase it on the spot...I had to wait and hope that...
View ArticleA Note on Farting
In a recent e-mail, someone noted that a student stated that there is a different between a real fart and a fake fart with such differences "proven scientifically". I giggled at the statement and then...
View ArticleArticle 22
I recently received the below story as a forward from a family member...Because of my own politics and my enjoyment of political banter...I replied all to the e-mail sending what appears after the...
View ArticleLady Gaga: The Politics of Artifice and the Ethics of Gaga
It seems that the world has fallen for Gaga - some have fallen in love with her, some have fallen out of love with her, some are falling trying to grasp who or what she is. And in recent weeks, the...
View ArticleQueertopia: A Strange Place
What is queertopia? Can such a place exist? And what is its future? Who is in such a place? And who is part of such a future, a rather queer future - perhaps? These are questions that are raised in a...
View ArticleSex Tours and Spanking
Chicago is home to supposedly the only sex tour in the United States. And since I think sex is quite interesting for a variety of reasons - personal, political, philosophical, and ethical - and am new...
View ArticleDrag University and the Figure of the Drag Queen
Judith Butler in her landmark book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity utilizes the concept of drag to illustrate, what she proposes, gender performativity. In her analysis she...
View ArticleBurlesque
Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for years. It is the best of holidays, in my opinion, because all you have to do is cook, eat, and clean...no presents to buy or worry about taking back, no...
View ArticleA Critique of Lady Gaga and her Politics on DADT
Lady Gaga has morphed, as a "pop" performer, into a "pop" politician these days as seen in her recent speech about Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT). And I appreciate her attempt to merge the "political"...
View ArticleIt Gets Better?
With the current spate of LGBT youth committing suicide, we have seen campaigns emerge that seek to, it seems, “save lives.” The first to emerge was Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” youtube channel and...
View ArticleDisappoining Glee
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View ArticleFag Discourse: That's So Gay, No Homo, and Childish Insults
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View ArticleTeaching Sex: A Lesson at Northwestern University
Controversy has emerged at Northwestern University after Prof. Michael Baily during an after-class lecture invited 4 members of the Chicago BDSM community to discuss “kink” which included an impromptu...
View ArticleOn Homophobic Jokes and Weiners
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View ArticleHoarders and the Crisis in Capitalism
I really enjoy what some call "trash" tv. Some people upon hearing this look at me quite strangely. They wonder how someone with my education - I have a Ph.D. - could enjoy such pedantic,...
View ArticleBecoming in Glee: The Problem of Outing
I've written about Glee before. I have a love-hate relationship to the show. Sometimes I really love it and find it rather enjoyable while other times I hate it for its constant move to the normal. It...
View ArticleOn Time
The task was to write a personal time-line. In such a task I imagine many will provide pivotal moments, moments that had time in the background, as a date, but where time ne'er took center stage. Time...
View ArticleStories of Objects: On the Possibilities for Fetishism in Education
We make our objects from what we make of our world, and in return they teach us: this is fetishism’s object lesson.- E. L. McCallumWe read this week about the role of stories in our lives. Stories,...
View ArticleA Final Lecture - Social Theory 2012
The Time of Social TheoryIt seems apropos to begin the end of a class with Madonna. In her fabulous portrayal of Eva Peron in Evita she sings...”Where do we go from here? This isn’t where we intended...
View ArticleA History of a Course
A History of a CourseAnd so we come to our final moments together as a class. Over the past 15ish weeks we have covered a rather large amount of content, philosophical arguments, and well “time”. Since...
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