By Gary Kinsman and J. Charbonneau Why we’re writing this We are writing this because in our different geographical and social locations we have encountered the emergence and growth of the Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM)
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Queered Marxism and the Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer Reviews # 1.
Warped: Accumulation Regimes and Class and Social Struggles. By Gary Kinsman Peter Drucker, Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015). This is the beginning of a series of review essays on historical
Read moreAutonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s by John Huot
at: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/18-autonomist-marxism/
Read moreStop the Crackdown on consensual queer sex: Toronto Police at it again with “Project Marie”
Stop the Crackdown on consensual queer sex: Toronto Police at it again with “Project Marie” By Gary Kinsman, Nov. 14, 2016. The Toronto police are engaging in a very intensive six week (perhaps longer) crack
Read moreMy Take on the Toronto Pride Committee Statement in response to the Town Hall meetings around Pride.
By Gary Kinsman At the Pride Day parade last June Black Lives Matter in Toronto (BLM-TO) brought the parade to a halt and issued nine demands (http://blacklivesmatter.ca/demands/) calling for more resources and space for Black
Read moreBlack Lives Matter Toronto recaptures Pride’s activist roots
At: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/black-lives-matter-toronto-pride-kinsman-1.3665829 Black Lives Matter Toronto recaptures Pride’s activist roots – Toronto – CBC News The Black Lives Matter contingent carried with it the spirit of Stonewall and the activist roots of Pride — not
Read moreMoss Park: Whose Park? Whose ‘Redevelopment’?
The Context: Social Exclusion and Gentrification The Downtown East has already been the target of major attempts to push homeless and poor people out of our communities, including through a major loss of shelter beds
Read moreBrief Report on No Pride in Gentrification of Moss Park community meeting
Last Thursday (April 7), over 120 concerned people came to a public forum and community meal at the John Innes Community Centre. Organized by Queer Trans Community Defence (QTCD), with the support of the Ontario
Read moreBook Launch for Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging.
Friday, October 16 8pm At Buddies In Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1B4 Glad Day Bookshop presents the Book Launch for OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon’s edited collection, Disrupting Queer
Read moreWe Demand an Apology for the Canadian War on Queers
LGBTIQ public servants demand apology for the Canadian war on queers By Ella Bedard, June 24, 2015 Photo: Martine Roy and Darl Wood (with cane) pose at the Persons’ Case Monument on Parliament Hill. Both
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