The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.
The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.
“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”
