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Race, Reading Lists

Abolition Isn't Only About Police

We also need to abolish prisons—as well as put an end to counterterrorism. An abolitionist reading list. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Stonewall At Fifty

A gay liberation reading list. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Philosophy & Religion, Reading Lists

A Century of Critical Theory

Happy birthday, Habermas!

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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

Reading Lists

What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

A Racial Capitalism Reading List 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Arts in Society, 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

Reading Lists

The United States Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem

Our problem is that we keep producing killers.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Reading Lists

The College Admissions Scam Is Not the Problem

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

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Arts in Society, Reading Lists

Women Who Write

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

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Reading Lists

Our Best Film Writing For Oscars Weekend

Lars von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Michael Haneke. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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