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Bettina Aptheker Lets Queer Radicals Out of the Closet
Goodtimes Santa Cruz ^ | October 19, 2022 | Steve Palopoli

Posted on 10/19/2022 6:29:51 PM PDT by artichokegrower

With her pioneering work in Feminist Studies over the last 40 years, and her role as a Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCSC, Bettina Aptheker is a famed academic. The title of her latest book, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s, might make you think of academia, too, and its focus on institutional analysis and the surveying of eras.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bettinaaptheker; cpusa; herbertaptheker
Put queer communist in a closet and toss in a grenade
1 posted on 10/19/2022 6:29:51 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

With her pioneering work in Feminist StudiesT

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That right there is impressive!


2 posted on 10/19/2022 6:38:56 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (I thank my God that I won't get what I deserve.)
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To: Graybeard58

She was a fixture of the 60s “New Left,” which was pretty much like the old Left only with drugs. Surprised the old coot is still alive and kicking. Old shit dies hard I guess.


3 posted on 10/19/2022 7:05:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Earned $250,000 per year teaching communism at the University of California. Making a six figure pension now. Her wealth should be confiscated and distributed to the proletariat


4 posted on 10/19/2022 7:21:09 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Her old man, Herbert Aptheker, was a Columbia professor and major functionary of the American Communist Party. She wrote a book in 2007 that her commie daddy molested her for 10 years from age 3 to 13. It didn’t keep her from becoming a commie too.


5 posted on 10/19/2022 7:30:09 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: artichokegrower
Saul Alinsky was “a famed academic”. So is Bill Ayers.
6 posted on 10/19/2022 7:31:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Those are infamous academics.


7 posted on 10/19/2022 7:44:24 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Her father Herbert was the theoreticians of the Soviet controlled, financed, and established CPUSA. She was their campus communist face.


8 posted on 10/20/2022 2:05:29 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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