Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Transphobic Moral Panic
I don't think Pretty Patel is suffering from false consciousness I think she knows perfectly well what she's up to. The task is to understand her as part of the racist assemblage that we live with and that she's not a kind of juke or a token if this was tokenism I don't think there would be so many of them. So it seems to me that we're looking at something quite different to that hmm exactly umSo let's kind of move towards kind of finishing up and looking at your final chapter which is on the treatment of children under sexual modernity. This is where you look at the recent emergence of seemingly contradictory conditions converging around issues of gender and
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