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needed, and applicable, today. 1 From The Queer Sixties. Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. New York: Routledge, 1999. 2 Bronski, Michael. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.
Michael Bronski • Song of the Loon (Little Sister's Classics)
Social Justice approaches that focus solely on group identity and neglect individuality and universality are doomed to fail for the simple reasons that people are individuals and share a common human nature.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The political power of drag resides in its ability to draw attention to just how performative gender can be. By amplifying characteristics of femininity or masculinity, it highlights their absurdity, their arbitrariness, and just how easily they can be applied and abandoned.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
we have to raise the question of whether algorithm design should be structured according to the logic of “fairness,” read as color and gender blindness, or according to the logic of racial, gender, and disability justice.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
Because of killjoys, the story goes, we are not allowed to keep our traditions, to do what we had previously enjoyed doing in a relaxed and uncontroversial manner.
Sara Ahmed • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
No one is born a woman; it as an assignment (not just a sign, but also a task or an imperative, as I discuss in part I) that can shape us; make us; and break us.