As the decade approaches, this website is off to a new start. Over the years since I first started writing for the public, sometime in the early 2000s, I’ve produced at least around 600 pieces, counting work that’s original to my website and work written for outlets like The Baffler, Current Affairs, In These Times, Windy City Times, and others. The new decade prompts me to produce two “twenty best” lists. The first lists work original to this site (and there are, yes, actually twenty-two), and the second links to work I’ve written for outside publications. I also included a third section, with links to podcasts and other interviews I’ve done, if you’d like to hear what I sound like in person. If you’re new to my work, these are a great way to learn more about my writing and my politics. Enjoy — and Happy New Decade!
1. American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting
2. Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship
4. Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts
5. Polyamory is Gay Marriage for Straight People
6. Jason Momoa, Aquaman, and the Queer Art of Friendship
7. A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media
8. Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free
9. Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter
10. Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I
11. On Malayalam and Melancholia
12. On Judith Butler and the MLA
13. How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable
14. Are Private Prisons Really the Problem?
15. Death by Celebrity: Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Lives We Leave Behind
16. From Queer to Gay: The Rise and Fall of Milo
17. What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
18. Fuck Love
19. Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal
20. Season’s Greetings, Love, and Molecules
21. Hyde Park: Where Food Goes to Die
22. Friendship in the Time of Love
EXTERNAL LINKS
1. A Manifesto, Evergreen Review
2. Racism and the American Pit Bull, Current Affairs
3. Elizabeth Gilbert and the Pinterest Fantasy Life, Current Affairs
4. Riding the Hashtag: How Elites Embrace the Veneer of Radicalism, Current Affairs
5. Believe in Something: Corporate Wokeness Is Big Business, The Baffler
6. Exalted Slogans: The Curse of Radical Academic Discourse, The Baffler
7. The Dangerous Academic Is An Extinct Species, Current Affairs
8. March As Feminists, Not As Women, Verso Blog
9. There’s No Rescuing the Concept of Equality, Interview with Hypocrite Reader
10. The Ideal Neoliberal Subject is the Subject of Trauma, Interview with Hypocrite Reader
11. Why Is America Turning to Shit? The Awl
12. “We Were There, We Are Here, Where Are We?: Notes Toward A Study of Queer Theory in the Neoliberal University” QED, Summer 2016
13. I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free. Vox
14. On Cultural Purity. Seven Stories Press Blog
15. Inclusion in the Atrocious, with Eli Massey, Current Affairs
16. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?: Why Gay Nonprofits Fail and Yet Survive Current Affairs
17. Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Eebate, with Eugenia Williamson, The Baffler
18. Bars for Life: LGBTQs and Sex Offender Registries. Windy City Times
19. Rights Make Might: The dystopian undertow of Hillary Clinton’s elite feminism The Baffler
20. Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit Current Affairs
INTERVIEWS INCLUDING PODCASTS, RADIO, AND TELEVISION
Deconstructing #MeToo and the book She Said, with Allison Lirish Dean on the Ear to the Pavement podcast.
“Bodies and Power,” on electoral politics and more, with The Nostalgia Trap’s David Parsons.
On Queer Politics Today, with Kai Rye, on Queercorps, CKUT90.3 FM, Montreal
“Corporate Wokeness,” Escape from Plan A Podcast
Interview, Nostalgia Trap with David Parsons
“Money vs. Wealth,” Nostalgia Trap with David Parsons
“Marry the State, Jail the People: On Hillary Clinton’s Carceral Feminism,” This Is Hell Podcast
On Polyamory, the non-profit industrial complex, and the Jusse Smollett story, Content Warning: Bunker Podcast with Ben Udashen
Nanette Dame de Paris, The News Never Ends Podcast
In conversation: Yasmin Nair on Trauma, Diversity, Comedy and the Non-profit Industrial Complex, Current Affairs Podcast
The Revolution Will Not Be Sexualized, Part I, Champagne Sharks Podcast, 1 October, 2019
The Revolution Will Not Be Sexualized, Part II, Champagne Sharks Podcast, 1 October, 2019
Rethinking Inclusion (about trans inclusion in the military), Segment on Russia Today, 3 August, 2018
The Critique of TLGBQ “Inclusion,” Groundings Podcast with Devyn Springer, 5 August, 2018