Every weekday, I post–on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram–an essay from my archive (sometimes more than one), along with new work published that week. I realised it might make sense to compile these links at the end of every week, so that readers who missed them at the time can catch up. This is the second in the series.
You’re welcome to follow me on any of the above-mentioned social media platforms, but please note that I’m no longer accepting new friend requests on FB, unless I’ve met you and know you personally. You can, however, still follow me there without us directly “friending” each other.
The week’s NEW essay is, “Everything We Do, We Do for the Ones After Us.”
“A Gauntlet of Lesbians: In Praise Of The Middlebrow.”
“A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo”
“Sex and the City’s Soft White Supremacy”
“Cheap Restaurants are the Canaries in the Coal Mine.”
And, as always, if you’d like to know more about my work, start here: “A Manifesto.” For more, just peruse this website, using the search box (I’m still uploading older work).
If you’d like to support me to ensure that I keep producing work that’s truly independent, isn’t concerned with “hot takes,” and that takes actual real intellectual risks, you can support me in a number of ways.
Happy Weekend. As of this writing, Otter 841 remains at large (in what is technically her own habitat). This is an animal whose entire life has been coloured by human interactions, even as a foetus. Live large and free, Otter 841. Hopefully we won’t do a Freya on you.
Image: “Escape,” Yasmin Nair, 2023