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Ryan Gustafson

Ryan Gustafson
PhD Student, Philosophy, New School for Social Research
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Queer Reflections On A Summer Of Violence: Surviving Orlando Without Alibi

August 29, 2016 • by Ryan Gustafson

In a June 12, 2016, Op-Ed (“The Scope of the Orlando Carnage”) New York Times columnist Frank Bruni joined many pundits in cautioning against what he described as narrowly sectarian interpretations of the violence that was unleashed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on the previous evening. “Let’s be ...

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