Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
Three great minds consider what queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique.
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Fire This Time?
Kenya’s Referendum on Public Values
Editors’ Note, Vol. 62: Posers
Posers get glory while incurring little to no pain. Isn't that the dream?
Blackpentecostal Breath
An excerpt from Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, which was published by Fordham University Press in October 2016.
80’s-2017 – _E ++[ G R ] E A T E R++ T: L + H| WFAL [TM]
“We knew,” he finished my sentence.
Algorithms Allowed
View Algorithms Allowed here. Introduction by Rob Horning Joana Moll’s “Algorithms Allowed” scrapes websites from countries that the U.S. has sanctioned or embargoed—Cuba, Iran, North…
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
Know Your Rights
We limit our resistance to fascism by relying on liberal conceptions of human rights.
You Can Encrypt Your Face
Facial recognition technology turns your face into code that can be archived and traded among strange and suspect parties. Its growing sophistication in the hands…
Editors’ Note, Vol. 61: Conspiracy
Just because they’re after you, doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.
You Probably Think This Bot Is About You
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.