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Month: April 2009
The Archipelago of Detention
No crime means no police. What makes the presence and control of the police tolerable for the population, if not fear of the criminal? This institution of the police, which is so recent and so oppressive, is only justified by Read More …
Notes for Kal Penn in the White House
Kumar is finally working with House after all, only it is the White House. Whose Kumar? Does Kal Penn ring a bell? Remember the confused Gogol Ganguli of The Namesake? The pot-smoking Kumar from Harold and Kumar? The young Indian-American Read More …
Threatened: The American Taliban – Iowa and Vermont Approve Gay Marriage
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! What are opponents of gay marriage going to do when civilization fails to collapse? Two U.S. states with different socio-economic, political and geographical realities came through for same-sex marriage this past week. Read More …
Top 5 Bollywood Lesbian Icons
What is a lesbian or gay icon? A gay icon or LGBT icon is a historical figure, celebrity or public figure who is embraced by many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities; the term Dykon, a portmanteau of Read More …
North Korea Is Not a Threat – Unveiling Hegemonic Discourses
That security is socially constructed does not mean that there are not to be found real, material conditions that help to create particular interpretations of threats, or that such conditions are irrelevant to either the creation or undermining of the Read More …