...a year ago, I tried to return to romance novels written in the 1970s and early 1980s, and I couldn't. They were full of rape. It was a vernacular. I...
...even though it will mean lugging some sixty cartons of them through high summer’s swelter. I tried in the past to break myself of this packrat-ish impulse, lest it end...
...distort family values.” She writes as if those family values — the same ones that have emerged from patriarchal culture and skewed emotional labor along gender lines — reflect eternal...
...all levels, and I’ve been increasingly curious about where this pernicious idea came from, how people have tried to address it, and why it persists. This semester, I’m teaching a...
...to be anonymous, I wanted my own desire and not to be only desire’s object. I know this is a wildly optimistic reading of what gay sex culture promises women,...
...now occasionally a human ashtray. T-SYMMETRIC: “i can’t decide if it’s cool or gross.” CHIQUITA: “the guy eats butts!” INGRID: “he tried his whole life to think his way into...
...thousands of unauthorized migrants have perished since the mid-1990s, and elsewhere. He recounts one particularly horrific case, that of 15-year-old Felani Khatun, who in January 2011 tried to surreptitiously cross...
...while Muslim must have been dots crying out to be connected. In order to do so, it tried to turn Ould Slahi’s itinerant nature against him, by targeting him at...
...blame this on patriarchal culture, but I’m pretty sure it’s more complex than that. of DeeDeeness? For some weird reason,*** in my mind the Ideal Form of DeeDee isn't characterized...
...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...
...much about the products on an individual, something about seeing all of them grouped together on the page vaguely unsettled me. I tried articulating this to a friend, who then...
...bridge. we tried on some panties. she’s reading lunar park. i told her it was a big mistake. the beginning is fine but then he starts to see ghosts everywhere....