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He Likes Guys

Directed by Various DirectorsWolfe VideoAs a member of my college cinema club, I would show a film a couple of nights every month. Usually, the featured movie would be preceded by a surprise short...

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Walking the Precipice: Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan

By Barbara BickThe Feminist PressA deluge of books on Islamic fundamentalism had swamped the world's bookshelves following the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Some 100 books and 5,600 articles were written...

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Compulsion

Directed by Sarah HardingNesrine Malik’s scathing review of the ITV drama Compulsion got me thinking a lot more about modern day adaptations of pre-twentieth century literary works featuring ethnic...

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Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society

Edited by Sherene RazackBetween The LinesInstitutional racism: we all know it exists, yet many deny it does. In this book, Sherene Razack, author of Looking White People in the Eye, edits a set of...

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The Mosque in Morgantown

Directed by Brittany HuckabeePBSReading the official synopsis of The Mosque in Morgantown, I quickly got the impression that it was a documentary film that revolved around the battle between...

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Women of Color and Feminism

By Maythee RojasSeal PressIf many postmodern feminists would have it, colour or “race” wouldn't be of primary concern in theorising oppression; a woman would be seen as much more than her race, class,...

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Privilege: A Reader

Edited by Michael Kimmel, Abby L. FerberWestview PressA historian once said that the more one can know about something, the more you can control it. Michel Foucault was specifically talking about the...

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Aquila

Edited by Jelte ten HoltFor those familiar with women’s “lifestyle” magazines, the call to be “sexy” in some way or another is not new. We women need to have “sexy” everything: attitude, legs, skin,...

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Body 2 Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology

Edited by Jerome Kugan, Pang Khee TeikMatahari BooksBody 2 Body is the product of Malaysia’s young, hip and well-connected who’ve banded together to compile a collection of short stories and essays on...

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The Rey Chow Reader

Edited by Paul BowmanColumbia University PressNot many theorists would re-imagine Jane Eyre as a Maoist. However, postcolonial thinker Rey Chow does and with great aplomb. Furthermore, it's not in the...

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The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures

By Susan HekmanIndiana University PressThis is a book for the post post-modernist thinker. Written by professor of political science, Susan Hekman, The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures seeks...

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Orgasm Inc.

Directed by Liz CannerChicken & Egg PicturesThe orgasm. Feminists laud it, good lovers work hard to give it, pharmaceutical companies make it a business model. The inability to experience an orgasm...

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

By Ntozake ShangeScribnerThere is something quite redemptive about the 2010 edition of Ntozake Shange's experimental “choreo-poem,” For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is...

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