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Max S. Gordon

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Max S. Gordon is a writer and activist. He has been published in the anthologies Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews and Latinos (University of Michigan Press, 1991), and Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of African-American Lesbian and Gay Fiction (Henry Holt, 1996). His work has also appeared at The New Civil Rights Movement, openDemocracy, Democratic Underground and Truthout, in Z Magazine, Gay Times, Sapience, and other progressive on-line and print magazines…

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Bill Cosby, Himself: Fame, Narcissism and Sexual Violence

Bill Cosby, Himself: Fame, Narcissism and Sexual Violence

"People who die bad don't stay in the ground" ---- Beloved, Toni Morrison 1 Let me begin by saying this: I am…

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A Different World: Why We Owe The Cosby Accusers An Apology

A Different World: Why We Owe The Cosby Accusers An Apology

"The sins of the fathers. They just fucked it all up. We had the best family. We had it all. We had it all in…

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Faggot As Footnote: On James Baldwin, 'I Am Not Your Negro', 'Can I Get A Witness?' and 'Moonligh...

Faggot As Footnote: On James Baldwin, 'I Am Not Your Negro', 'Can I Get A Witness?' and 'Moonligh...

"People invent categories in order to feel safe.? White people invented black people to give white people ide…

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Be Glad That You Are Free: On Nina, Miles Ahead, Lemonade, Lauryn Hill and Prince

Be Glad That You Are Free: On Nina, Miles Ahead, Lemonade, Lauryn Hill and Prince

"Everybody is half dead. Everybody avoids everybody, all over the place, in most situations, most all the tim…

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Resist Trump: A Survival Guide - Max S. Gordon - Medium

Resist Trump: A Survival Guide - Max S. Gordon - Medium

by Max S. Gordon (Speech given at the event, "One Year Later: Writers, Artists & Advocates Respond to Our Ame…

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On Race and Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale'

On Race and Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale'

"We lived as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it." - Margaret At…

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The Devil Made Him Do It: Black Pain, Camp Trash and Christianity in Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance

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“If you’re an example of decency, Sister, thank God I’m indecent. — Madge Gibson (Joanne Woodward) to Mama (Vicki Lawrence) in The Family Sketches, The Carol Burnett Show (1976) “If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with white people…not according to me, according to this poll…that’s a hate group. And I don’t want to have anything to do with them…[T]he best advice I would give to white people is get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away…Because there is no fixing this.
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A Black Homosexual Speaks to Governor Mike Pence

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By Max S. Gordon
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Walter Lee: We're just telling you 'bout the gentleman who came to see you this afternoon. From the Clybourne Park Improvement Association....He said the one thing they don't have, that they...
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On MADONNA and the Grammys Controversy

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By Max S. Gordon by Max S. Gordon "They had style, they had grace, Rita Hayworth gave good face." - Madonna, "Vogue" (written by Madonna & Shep Pettibone) "You know, I don't mind getting old, I never thought I'd live this long anyway...What I do mind is looking old...I think I'm sort of jealous of you. And that is because, well, it being your turn and all. And I think I find it tough ...
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