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Review of The Law is a White Dog

The Journal of Legal Education just published my review of Colin Dayan’s book The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (2011).  Have a look!

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New video and slideshow

Earlier this year I was invited to share a manifesto at the Tate Museum in London as part of the Gender Talents show. I couldn’t make it, so I made a video with Basil Shadid to capture some of the...

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War and Marriage

This week a new article by me and Craig Willse went up on Organizing Upgrade that aims to capture some of the important left critiques of marriage that have been obscured by the pro-marriage messages...

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Reviews, news, interviews

Thanks to Dan Irving for a generous review of Normal Life in GLQ and to Rachel Levitt for this review of Normal Life in the inaugural issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.  I also want to share...

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Videos and interview

Here is a recent interview on Society and Space–thanks to Natalie Oswin for asking very interesting questions! I have some new video projects to share.  Here are four short movies that Reina Gossett...

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Feminist Valentine

Calvin Burnap and I made a Valentine for you all. Download to share as PDF | as JPG | as individual JPG images

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New Writing

Just updating this website and wanted to add some new writing.  Morgan Bassichis and I recently published an article called “Queer Politics and Anti-Blackness” in the new anthology, Queer...

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Three videos about ending violence

Please watch and share the three videos below that I made in collaboration with the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Columbia Center for Gender and Sexuality Law. During our Fall 2013...

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First Edition of Normal Life Back in Print from Duke

Thanks to the hard work of many people at Duke University Press, Normal Life is back in print after the tragic closing of South End Press last summer. Look for a second edition of Normal Life with new...

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Article on Norms and Normalization

Craig Willse and I wrote an entry on Norms and Normalization for the Oxford Handbook on Feminist Theory.  Read it here!

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Creating Change: Pinkwashing ICE, Pinkwashing Israel

On January 12, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force issued an apology for including a panel by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the program of the upcoming Creating Change Conference....

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New Writing and Videos

I have gotten a bit behind at posting new work. Many new things have come out. First, the new edition of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law is out from...

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New GIFs and Videos for Pride!

Hope Dector and I have been making more things! Animated GIFs featuring art by Micah Bazant. Please share! Find them on Giphy here and here for sharing on facebook.     Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No...

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Questionnaire and 2002

In 2014, Juana María Rodríguez organized an event called “Soapbox Manifestos” at the American Studies Association annual meeting and invited me to perform a manifesto. I wrote and read this...

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New Videos on Marriage

Hope Dector and I just released six new videos from our Queer Dreams series. These all examine the limits of marriage inclusion as a liberation strategy for queers, and the reasons it became so central...

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Review of Una Vida Normal and Two-Part Interview in Spanish

Many thanks to Dolores Curia for publishing this two-part interview in Argentina’s Pagina 12. And thanks to Silvia López for this review of Una Vida Normal in Revista Española de Ciencia Política. And...

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Kessler Lecture Video and New Interview

So many thanks to everyone at CLAGS for a wonderful experience giving the Kessler Lecture this year. The unedited video is below, and soon there will be a version (edited by the phenomenal Hope Dector)...

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