On June 1, Illinois began instituting its first civil unions, with much fanfare in the gay community.  To their very great credit, WBEZ, the NPR affiliate in Chicago, decided to provide more than one view about gay marriage amongst queers.  I was on the popular morning program Eight Forty-Eight, hosted by Alison Cuddy, to talk about why gay marriage is not and should not be a priority for many of us, and about the work of Against Equality, the editorial collective of which I am a part.  You can listen to the entire interview here:

This article is the first in a series looking at systemic, structural problems in the arts community.  It explores the very real problems of undervaluing artists and their labor, privatization of the arts, and the structural problem of shifting social justice work from the state to artists. Part II is forthcoming.