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How the respectability politics of fairness will lead us nowhere

Opinion: "We must fully reject respectability politics and those who espouse it — now is no time for capitulation or compromise," argues Marcie Bianco.

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Andrew Sullivan represents everything wrong with the gay rights movement

Cultural critic Marcie Bianco excavates Sullivan's anti-trans, anti-left assertions in The New York Times that people are being forced to transition to erase gay people and that the Progress Flag excludes anyone not on the far left.

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Visions of Solidarity: Lesbian writers on how we save the world from fascism

New books by Sarah Schulman and the late Urvashi Vaid offer a blueprint for a common movement to fight against American authoritarianism and the rise of fascism worldwide.

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Masculinity, in 'crisis'? Or just a spectacle?

Opinion: Is masculinity — the normative social roles, behaviors, and actions perceived as attributes of men — in crisis? Or is the crisis actually the steadily growing realization that masculinity is just spectacle?

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The tragedy of 4B: Scissoring out the patriarchy, but not scissoring each other

"The irony of 4B is that it doesn’t even scissor out the patriarchy because its logic continues to center it...", writes Marcie Bianco.

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Author Julia Serano Separates Sex From Stigma in 'Sexed Up'

Trans feminist Julia Serano's latest book aims to sever sex from stigma.

'Let the Record Show' by Sarah Schulman gives the ACT UP New York movement its proper place in history.
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'We Were ACT UP': New Book Celebrates Unsung Heroes of AIDS Crisis

Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is a meticulously crafted history of the activist movement that rose out of the AIDS epidemic.