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By Johanna Isaacson The Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted two baffling contradictions and major impediments to left solidarity. First, we… Read more Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse