Love in revolution
Love does not exist in a vacuum. In post-Apartheid South Africa, the tensions between radical solidarity and quiet diligency stand to rupture even the purest human connections.
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The unknowns of sexual desire
Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.
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Decolonising Desire: The Politics of Love
Dalia Gebrial examines the colonial scripts that encode people in and out of the possibility of love. Embedded within the constituent discourses of love – of desirability, emotional labour, support and commitment – are codes of social value assigned to certain bodies; of who is worthy of love’s work. The labour of decolonising these representative paradigms is structural, and involves addressing their material histories.
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Freud's Choice
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Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy
On Valentine's Day, Emma Dowling makes a powerful case for thinking about the structure of social relationships rather than simply 'the one'.
