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JoAnn Wypijewski is author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life, just out now from Verso.
His essays on police brutality still burn hot, but his understanding of sex, self-knowledge and power demand equal attention now.
Sex, or the fear of it, has been almost as important in the construction of this nightmare as racism.
We can pretend the politics of liberation can be tracked along clearly marked lines, or we can remember that history is like desire.