A Queer Radical Critique of Gay Marriage

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Mon, 12/29/2014 - 12:00am
A queer radical critique of gay marriage as a way of perpetuating capitalist exploitation.

Iven Hale reads from a recent essay by Yasmin Nair titled Against Equality, Against Marriage. Iven leads off relating her own experiences with marriage's cultural hegemony.

"A queer radical critique of the family is not simply the celebration of an outsider status, although it is often that, but an economic critique as well. A queer radical critique of gay marriage exposes how capitalism structures our notion of family and the privatization of the social relationships we depend on to survive."

 

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