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... continued to play out. The Bang-Bang Club’s photographs show a world flattened by apartheid, which in turn can teach us something about the workings of the unconscious. South Africa Bang-Bang Club political violence nightmare apartheid ...

... and doubt about fantasized futures. Several frightening versions of utopian thinking are described here, cautionary tales about any effort to clean up the world and make it perfect. Nonetheless the piece—and the book—ends with the need to confront the nightmare versions of one’s wishes without giving up...

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... to actually becoming their worst nightmare. Vatican feminism sexual rights social justice gender While in the global north the debate around human rights for LGBT people is principally focused on marriage equality and trans rights, many jurisdictions in the global south remain burdened...

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