Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.
In this context, time as we understand it no longer exists, and has shifted into a permanent state of the ever-present; social media has served to flatten out time. There is no “was” in this scenario, only an “is.” We suffer from a permanent state of is-ness, engorged with anger.
Excerpt: If “queer” means anything, and if we queers have given anything to the world, it’s a combination of sex and love that stretches the imagination and the concept of friendship.
I’m willing to take unpopular stances not because I want to be a contrarian but because I’m interested in pursuing the truth of an analysis with integrity (and I have no patience for false modesty).
Excerpt: She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.
“I wanted, and want, to write because writing is connected to what I want to see happen and change in the world…I write myself into the world and out of it, I write my plans for the world every minute as I enter and reenter it.”
