I’m often asked, “What are the publications and organizations and people you support?” So, in response, I’ve made up this set of lists, which I’ll add to as time goes on.
Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.
Taking all these intertwining histories into account reveals an archaeology of power. This is not just a history of Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state.
There are very, very few organisations I truly support and Chicago Freedom School, an organisation devoted to nurturing and creating youth-led social justice and education, is one of them. Please read this and support them as they ready for their annual Moments of Justice event.
Excerpt: Most of all, terms like “sapiosexual” and “demisexual” seek to make stable and coherent and legible and understandable a part of our lives that is simply not something we can easily contain: Desire.
If there is one thing I’m really happy about, it’s my writing. I’m exploring new topics and even genres and very happy stretching my muscles with all the new work I’ve got planned.
Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other.
I’ve gone through more life-changing experiences in the course of a few months than most experience in a few years, and I think that’s so true. At the same time, my life is also not that different from the millions of others who operate in an economy that now defines us as the “precariat.”
