Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...workers share what they’ve learned from their professional family obligations. Alana Massey addresses the young sugar baby as she would a junior trainee, reminding them that a sugar daddy is...
Sunday Reading
...so close to Sacramento!" Occupy the Farm and the Conditions of Academic Labor [be sure to check out the comments for a special visit from a UC administration's blustering, red-faced...
Stories of Our Lives: Suicide
...in Stories of Our Lives. It haunts the ellipses. I am not sure how one writes the stories of queer children who do not live to adulthood. I am not...
Love in the Age of Self-Consciousness
...determined by abstract social relations — where identity becomes, in effect, entirely political. In contemporary urban life, we pass seamlessly through such spaces, our identity is no longer fixed by...
Reader's Digest
...of discretion.” Of course, once the danger had passed and the post-revolutionary regime, the Directory, was established, the need for such discretion vanished. The newly rich found themselves free to...
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...the New York Times, a glitch? Or were America’s liberals simply more comfortable imagining that misogyny, racism, and xenophobia hadn’t been so deeply programmed into American political life? If we...
Africa : Queer : Anthropology
...of a queer critique that “would destabilize the ground upon which any particular claim to identity can be made” was simply unthinkable. In a complicated strategy that I am not...
A Gay Communist Manifesto
An excerpt from the classic 1977 text Towards A Gay Communism
I'm With Stupid
...novel. Rodrigo imagines Macabéa, a girl so poor, ugly, and stupid—she is perpetually amazed by non-sequitur morsels of trivia discovered on the radio—that she becomes his emotional ideal, free of...
Permanent Display
...me. All the riders who pass through the subway come from everywhere, it seems to me, people from the banlieues included. In reality, they are the majority on public transit....
Sunday Reading
...Cannon: Salesmen, Scientific Experts, and Human Rights Abuses Jerusalem: a Study in Purpose, Pleasure, Politics and Perspective "Someone – or a lot of someones – appears to be compiling a...
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...of evil is just the result of a divine order that combines both perfection and free will. It’s in the definition of evil as nothing that we find the link...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
How Careful She Must Be: Midwives, Maternal Minds, and Monstrous Births
...theory are less important here than its key premise: God had created all future human bodies in complete, perfect form, and gestation itself was simply a growth process. Preformation tied...
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...own disordered eating, I had a definite idea of the kinds of women I would find there. They would be smart overachievers, sure, but they would be caught in the...