All posts by Adam Thomas
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Call for Submissions: Trans-Scripts, an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine
Volume II: 2012, “Queer Interventions and Intersections” Journal Publication Date: April 15, 2012 Deadline for the submission of papers: January 1, 2012 Trans-Scripts – a...
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It Matters what Team You Play For: Heteronormativity in Sports
Oscar Wilde once described the game of Rugby as “a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” While Wilde...
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On the Berkeley and Davis Protests
Back in February 2010, 11 Muslim students from UC Irvine and UC Riverside interrupted a speech given on the Irvine campus by Israeli ambassador Michael...
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Red Summer Turned Blue
The days are growing shorter, the new school year has started, and Halloween products have begun appearing on store shelves. Summer is well and truly...
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A View from London
At the time of writing, the protests that began two nights ago in the North London neighborhood of Tottenham have developed into full-blown riots in...
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On Her Birthday: Ida B. Wells
Last Saturday marked Ida B. Wells’ 149th birthday. On July 16, 1862, a few months before the Emancipation Proclamation and three years before the Thirteenth...
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Putting the “X” in X-Men
Last week, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a fascinating editorial-cum-review of Matthew Vaughan’s X-Men: First Class in The New York Times. In it, he makes an important...
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Flexing (Neo)Liberal Muscles
The British Deputy Prime Minister and coalition minority leader Nick Clegg has had a tough year. Like many advocates of his party, the Liberal Democrats,...
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On the Record: the Right’s Document Fetish
Academics, especially those in the humanities, cannot escape bad news. We hear of fresh budget cuts on a weekly basis. In the last few weeks...
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On a Blues Woman’s Birthday
Today is singer Bessie Smith’s 117th birthday. While the particular milestone is not the most significant, the woman it relates to is. “The Empress of...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...