Marissa Brostoff and Andrea Long Chu discuss Sex and the City and The X-Files,
unraveling the tangled history of Marxism and queer theory, Cynthia Nixon the
democratic socialist versus Miranda the straight corporate lawyer
misrecognized as a lesbian, feminism as consumption in Giuliani's New York,
the remarkable resilience of heterosexuality, the Cold War's paranoiac
aftershocks, history's startling return, the alt-right’s nostalgia for
postmodernism, the takeover of reality by reality TV, men with tinfoil hats
decrying the deep state from the heights of power, and the possibilities of
stitching socialism and queer politics together into a robust movement for
human liberation.
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