My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
...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,...
Permanent Display
...autonomy, does it reflect also on privacy? I tried to introduce a certain questioning into public space. By working on people’s gaze with the practice of “hijabizing” in the subway,...
Data Streams
...the Intercept. It’s a single frame of scrambled video imagery, and I tried to connect that with some of the metaphors that the analysts themselves use to describe the job...
Rhetoric and Tone: A Debate
...he has never even tried. I believe it is utterly childish to deflect that obvious journalistic/professional transgression with so cartoonish and incendiary an analogy and in calling it out as...
Pont Blank
...I’ve tried to tell this story. For nearly two years, I’ve been sending versions of what follows into the most important photographic journals and magazines. As you might expect, the...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...
Cruise Control
...spaces where men could come together — the ruined factory cities — have been swept up in the name of real-estate values. The privatized remnants of this vibrant sex culture,...
The Albatross Around Johnny Depp's Brain
...Apparently Johnny Depp tried to recreate the top picture in portraying Tonto, and produced the bottom picture. Take a minute to observe his interpretation: photos via Entertainment Weekly. Jessica...
Reserection
...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...
The Invented Persians
...mocking his death): As they tried to arrest more and more people the group of strong and defiant Palestinian women we were with threw their bodies over the men they...
Mind Games Forever
...ways the counterculture was domesticated and commercialized over the course of the 1960s, redirecting the revolutionary impulses aroused by contempt for the system at one’s own personality, which, in the...
Dogshit Orgasm
...he started publishing the magazine Cannabis Culture. Through the seed catalogue and the magazine, the recreational smoker became literate in boutique strain names. The thirst for knowledge and seeds extended...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...Price Is Right was on in the dayroom. I tried to play along, but just kept thinking about how this place is wrong.” Lil Wayne’s Gone ‘Til November is, in...
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
...times I tried to convince them that their meal came to $8.47, they could not trust me, and steadfastly refused to take the correct change from a $20. I ended...