Issues for the week of October 9, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of October 9

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Sex and Gender
2nd Week Prev. Rank: 4
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Alix Kates Shulman
Writer and radical feminist
We Were All Ex-Prom Queens
Claire Potter and Alix Kates Shulman
The Reckoning of Junot Diaz
Lucy Marx
Writer, essayist, activist
Post-Truth
First Week New Issue
Hate Inc.
Matt Taibbi
Post-truth or Moral Truth?
Lone Sorensen
The Political and Intellectual Entanglements of Post-Truth
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?
Andrew Woods
PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, and a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right.
Social Justice
First Week New Issue
On the Current Repression in Ecuador
Maria Granda Vega
M.A. Sociology, New School for Social Research and member of the #MujeresContraElPaquetazo collective
The Children’s Rights Movement Is Here
Yvonne M. Vissing
Founding Director, Center of Childhood and Youth Studies and Professor of Health Studies, Salem State University.
The Fire This Time
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research