Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.
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All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.
Nothing that Judith Butler represents is so fragile that it cannot survive without her.
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On Writing with Pain
The ongoing pain has forced me to reconfigure my schedule to prioritise the projects that need to get done—like finishing the proposal and producing work for my website and my supporters and subscribers—and to simply say no to anything that does not go towards all that.
What I want instead is to bring back the idea of writing as something that has a muscularity and a will to bring about a different world. And if we are to do that, we need to understand it as both work and labor, and not pretend that to ask for payment is to be […]
What kind of culinary omerta survives in Hyde Park to keep its restaurants at such a depth of mediocrity?
This is a murder mystery without a murder. Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that unravel […]
Suicide isn’t something we can fully claim to understand, but it’s also not something we need to blame people for.
March 9, 2018
It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.