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SherryTalksBack—smart, funny, subtle as a brick—is the blog site of Sexuality and Socialism author Sherry Wolf, filled with political, cultural and social commentary from this public speaker, writer and activist.
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SherryTalksBack · 2d ago

Women of a Certain Age

Every physical stage and emotional aspect of women’s lives has been pathologized, that is to say, viewed through the lens of a medical or psychological abnormality. And though aging is a condition none of us survive, women’s aging is problematized … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 3W ago

Kent State: The Spark That Set it Off

May 4, 2012, marks the 42nd anniversary of the shootings of 4 students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard. For me, it is also my 47th birthday and I’ve always had a certain fascination with this event … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 1M ago

Drugs at Work

I am not an airline pilot or heart surgeon. In fact, nothing I do professionally could lead to the death or salvation of another human life. Yet a shocking number of potential employers would like me to pee in a … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 1M ago

Race, Class and Marxism

Clearly, my last post touched off quite a bit of debate. As I began to prepare a response, it became obvious that there was no way to seriously take on the range of arguments and questions about race and class … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 1M ago

The Paralysis of “White Privilege”

Note: The piece below, written as a quick response to several folks who’d asked my opinion of the YouTube video in question, represents a first draft of my thoughts, not my final word on questions of Trayvon, race and class. … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 1M ago

Bringing the Fight for Justice to Sanford

My report from the Justice for Trayvon protest in Sanford, FL: AS MANY as 3,000 people joined the NAACP and the 1199SEIU health care workers union on March 31 for a protest through the central Florida town of Sanford where … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 1M ago

Is Trayvon’s Killing Sparking a New Movement in Central Florida?

Central Florida leftists insist something new is happening here since Trayvon Martin’s killing. In the era of Occupy and global resistance, small towns draped in Spanish moss are now home to budding activists raising their fists to demand justice for … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 2M ago

Trayvon in the Alps

It has been disorienting to be out of the country while a social explosion erupts back home over the murder of Trayvon Martin and the indifference of the American state to its own racism that criminalizes all Black men and … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 2M ago

Israel’s Chutzpah: Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid

Hucksters for Israel attempt to make up for in chutzpah what they lack in facts. On opening night of the eighth annual Israeli Apartheid Week at NYU — at an event featuring Omar Barghouti and Noura Erakat, leading Palestinian figures … Continue reading →
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SherryTalksBack · 3M ago

Wally Shawn: My Favorite Bourgeois Marxist

Whether you know it or not, you know Wally Shawn. He’s that funny, round-faced guy in Woody Allen’s Manhattan and a hundred other movies like The Princess Bride, My Dinner with Andre, Clueless and TV shows like The L Word and … Continue reading →
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