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...Jeremy Chow This essay considers how environmentalism can be interwoven with discourses of sexuality and the ways in which sexuality can participate in environmental justice movements. By thinking with provocative, erotic media that highlight environmental degradation, it marries investigations...

... such as environmental justice, fair trade, and neoliberal globalization. Maquilapolis  •  175 Although Maquilapolis is a powerful tool for supporting cross-­border activism, to call it an “activist film” or even a standard documentary would be inexact. One...

... to the elements. In an interview with Magdalena Cerda (Chilpancingo Collective for Environmental Justice), viewers learn that the factory abandoned its production site and discarded an alarming amount of toxic material, including sulfuric acid, cadmium, plastic, and lead, for which the Mexican government...

... the last twenty years called strategic philanthropy. This new form of giving often manifests in the form of cause- related marketing, a strategy whereby corporations work together with advocacy or nonpro t organizations to raise money for social justice issues. By branding themselves...

... with the reigning phallocratic conception of the body. The breast doesn’t appear, the same way pregnancy doesn’t appear. Justice Rehnquist says that reproductive rights are not stated in the Constitution. Of course not! They weren’t ever talking about women Certainly, the availability, and even...

...-year old dreams of “new systems of equality and justice being born” are set against fictional reenactments of a secret meeting between Cancer Man and government officials, including J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, and his subsequent preparations for the assassination. King’s speeches...

... determined being, simultaneously engages with the fraught question of reproductive choice and reproductive justice in our contemporary moment. Meditating on the film's visual, sonic, and conceptual representations of the “placental wall” and of the “parasitical” structure of pregnancy, the essay shows how...

... an early queer feature, Fresh Kill (US, 1994), which addresses gay rights, environmentalism, and govern- ment intrusion in a surreal, family- driven narrative. At the same time, she was coming out as a lesbian of color; she now identi- fies as gender- fluid. In the 1990s, Cheang transitioned into new media...

... is understandable, tangible, and hero-making. The spectacle of a dinosaur ripping out the guts of a human harks back to a time when “man” feared nature, a rather simple and quaint paradigm, when set against the current threat of global environmental destruction wreaked by man, but ultimately...

..., Sashibala was murdered by her husband, who set her aflame in their house. Chadha filed charges against Chandra in the Delhi High Court, only to be confronted with negligent police officers and a misogynistic legal system that repeatedly failed to bring Chandra to justice. It took twenty- one years...

...- ence with a curious ambivalence about the justice it dispenses. As Ruth and Richard are wordlessly reunited at Back of the Moon in the film’s final shots, we are reminded of the more astonishing and terrible scenes with Ellen in this same location. As the sun sets...

...- related charities” (28) or the prevention of “global warming” and “deforestation” (63). But in a telling exposure of the book’s real preoccupations, the lowest scores are awarded not to women who devote themselves to the “good of others” by way of social justice or environmental responsibility...

... as an organizational force, and propose a fan- tasy/utopian alternative to complex political conditions.6 Major cultural events of the 1990s have brought to the American public consciousness an increased awareness of differ- ence, of the noncongruence between competing interpretations of equality, justice...

... represented by the AVA contributed to the film their ideo- logical perspective on sexuality and their environmental determinism. The members originally comprising AFSH promoted an ideology they billed as “scientific” sex education, a frank and candid sexual dis- course, and the positive role...

... medium, internal and environmental, like the air we breathe. If, as Villarejo claims, television has become almost identical with the possibility of a queer self in its implantations of social time, in Riot this self is arrested in a peculiarly impersonal moment in 1978. The telemovie's climax...

..., and colonized people, as well as of environmental resources. 14. The WfH activists moreover saw the wage as part of capitalism s system of exploitation and thus did not seek wages for women as the ultimate goal. As Federici and Nicole Cox articulated in Counterplanning from the Kitchen, when we say that we...

..., whereas operation designates the system’s actual processing, which remains inaccessible so long as it forms the basis of that particular system’s observations. Describing social and psychic systems as environmentally closed on the level of their self-referential observation and open...

...-Culture Divide (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), which treats developmental systems as an alternative to either genetic or environmental determinisms; and Paul Rabinow, Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), esp...

... style was meant to be admired even as it was officially condemned by bringing the protagonist to justice at the film’s end or making him an object of pity or humor (Up in Smoke [dir. Lou Adler, US, 1978], The Big Lebowski [dir. Joel Coen, US/UK, 1998 However, more nuanced recent films...