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What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

A Racial Capitalism Reading List 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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Class & Inequality, Reading Lists

Get Organized

“Organizing is the strategy on which the success of all others depend. Yet it is the strategy that most progressives talk about the least.”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Sex Work Is Work

—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Abortion’s Past and Future

“I was a teenager back then, pregnant and desperate. Too terrified to make the midnight trip to the back alley.”

Matt Lord, Boston Review

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Trans Mothers. Marxist Mothers. Robot Mothers.

—and those who wish they could be mothers. A reading list for Mother’s Day.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Literature & Culture, Reading Lists

Writing the Twentieth Century

Poets, philosophers, playwrights. 

Rosie Gillies

Race, Reading Lists

How To Talk About Anti-Semitism

A reading list. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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The United States Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem

Our problem is that we keep producing killers.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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The College Admissions Scam Is Not the Problem

It's not just celebrity moms — middle-class families are guilty too.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Literature & Culture, Reading Lists

Women Who Write

Women (and nonbinary folks) who write — a reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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Our Best Film Writing For Oscars Weekend

Lars von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Michael Haneke. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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Our Black History Month Valentines

Those who have changed America—and those you might not have heard of.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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Sandra Bland Is Not Alone

Part two of our Black History Month reading series.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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