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Polluted Erotic Ecologies
Feminism Against Progressby mary harringtonregnery, 256 pages, $29.99 Sometimes life is stranger than art. Suppose you were a novelist, and your book’s protagonist is the genderqueer founder of a...
Judith Butler’s Trouble
ABerkeley student approaches two older women. She has a flier in her hand. “Hey, happy No-Pants Day!” she exclaims, in the state of undress to match her words. One...
Foucault’s Principalities & Powers
In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail, gnarled samurai who was dry and hieratic, who had the eyebrows of...
Deleuze on Desire
Andrea Long Chu, a biological male, explained in a 2018 op-ed for the New York Times why he desired radical surgery that would equip him with ersatz female genitalia....
