Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jules Joanne Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. She is the editor with Elle O’Rourke of Transgender Marxism.
Twitter: @socialrepro
Articles by Jules Joanne Gleeson:
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Introducing Transgender Marxism
An exclusive extract from the introduction to TRANSGENDER MARXISM.
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Being Real: A Review of Christopher Chitty's Sexual Hegemony
Chitty's book, though unreliable in parts, provides significant empirical support to those who read sexual liberation as one aspect of broader social struggles.
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This Infamous Proposal
The call for family abolition is a demand for queer joy and a blossoming of other, better ways of being together.
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What's to Debate?
The support of most Labour leadership candidates for trans rights is welcome. But arguments over 'sex' and 'gender' miss the sheer complexity and bureaucracy of current laws on gender recognition.
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Dialectics / Dialogue: a review of Ashley Bohrer's Marxism and Intersectionality
Ashley Bohrer's latest book brings Marxism and intersectionality into dialogue, offering a groundbreaking reading of the two traditions, but a limited view of collective struggle.
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A Curse On Both Your Brexits
Both the Conservative and Labour Party have found themselves divided over Brexit, but calls for a People's Vote, or 'Lexit', are inadequate responses to an insurgent nationalism.
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Implicit Crisis
Asad Haider’s ‘Mistaken Identity’ is a convincing defence of coalitions and class struggle, but makes an all-too-subtle argument against political pessimism.
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On the Guardian’s Transphobic Centrism
The Guardian's sly, transphobic editorial has rightly caused outrage, but should also help clarify strategies for future trans politics.
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Lesbians Going Their Own Way? A Critical View of the London Pride Hi-Jacking
The Get the L Out disruption of Pride reflects capital's tendencies to fragment and incorporate struggles.
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An Anatomy of the Soy Boy
New Developments in the Abuse and Expression of Effeminacy in Anonymous Online Spaces
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Normietivity: A Review of Angela Nagle's Kill all Normies
Inevitably, Angela Nagle’s new polemical non-fiction book, Kill All Normies, sent me on a trip down memory lane.