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‘I’m Looking for Someone to Fight, Not Someone to Run Over With My Car’
Andrea Long Chu on her new book, Authority; the so-called crisis of criticism; and how she chooses her subjects.
Recently, Chu spoke about all this and more with Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents, at her book launch at the Center for Fiction in New York. Are you telling me you don’t?” There’s an essay in here recounting some events in the lesbian-separatist-feminist scene in 1971, and you write, “It’s a sober reminder that much of what we remember as women’s liberation was just some stuff that happened at some parties.” But what we are seeing on a day-to-day basis now is that the manner by which the center has prepared the way for the right to come and try to genocide trans people is the very same identity model that they are always calling an excess of the left.
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