The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...punch with one too many zithering climbs, the music just tosses forth crescendo after crescendo in unceasing sequence, as an ocean breeds waves or as a city pukes condos on...
Strangers in a Strange Land
...sense of self. Everything I owned and did was a mark of the beast — my books, my music, my thoughts, my religion, my writing, my friends. Where, went the...
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Otherwise Movements
...where we are in terms of the fights for justice, the fights for equity. One of my friends says that the beauty in black music is found in how it...
Outgrowing oneself
...playing. I felt instantly as if I had been completely exposed. I thought there was something special about being into a certain kind of music — and Nirvana in the...
Enjoy the Rules
...of reciprocity on the Web, fostering a culture of mutually beneficial cooperation and due credit. Lanier, walking the talk, traces his idea to Ted Nelson, a network theorist who envisioned...
Simple and Plain
...from the culture. Elvis impersonators were probably more salient than Elvis himself at that point. My grandmother, I remember, had some of his later records: Moody Blue; Aloha From Hawaii...
Trans Historical Narratives
...the word. You can ’ t feed mostly upon yourself and sustain enough energy to live, that ’ s always going to be counter-productive. The process of writing about oneself...
terrain & terroir
...law, legitimacy and culture in both colonial and post-colonial contexts as ideas of sexuality, as the expression of essence and freedom compete with both ideas of sexuality as social reproduction...
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
...saves princess tiger lily. a party is organized, music and skewers, and the occasion for tiger lily, rather introvert, to show her feline side. she's a capricorn, like grandmaster flash....
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...within trans culture: the fake choice between literalism and opacity. Instead of making us choose, Wallenhorst looks at how this false dichotomy was produced in the first place. The anatomist...
Minor Cords
...struggled to catch up academically. I signed my own absence notes, talked frankly with teachers about my academic performance during parent-teacher conferences and tried my best to understand the importance...
How Ought We Die?
...in the future? We need a new script for talking about impending death, a guide to teach the population how to prepare for it and how to support one another...
On Being a Fat Child
...healthfully and mindfully, exercise aplenty, and remain fat. But that wasn’t me. Had I eaten the way my parents tried to teach me to eat, and not been so terrified...
Sunday Reading
...The sound that sweet music to the brain and will supercharge your muscles Kerim Friedman: “The prison yard is broken down into five distinct racial categories and segregation...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing