Category: bullies

• To the American Chopper Lighthouse

  Oct 24

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• Leave No Trace

  Nov 8

  In writing reportage about the Polish People’s Republic, Cezary Łazarewicz has written a universal book about the pathology of power. That this is a universal story, we can experience today… more ›

• NEH Evaluations, or Academics are Cunts

  Dec 28

  I applied for an NEH Fellowship for my Blanchot book. Today I received my evaluations. I want everyone to know what cunts are in charge of our nation’s intellectual work.… more ›

• MH17

  Jul 17

  I’ve been dreading this day for a year now: the first anniversary of when flight MH17 was shot down by thugs in eastern Ukraine with a Buk on loan from… more ›

• A Queer World (In Three Quotes)

  Apr 14

  “IN the Morocco of the 1980s, where homosexuality did not, of course, exist, I was an effeminate little boy, a boy to be sacrificed, a humiliated body who bore upon… more ›

• Gaza

  Jul 25

  No, we do not have to accept the status quo. We do not have to accept the fact that our nation unqualifiedly supports Israel. We can hold our representatives accountable.… more ›

• The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present

  Mar 6

  Referencing the past is a weak form of analysis and one that offers little insight to the current situation in Ukraine. The Russian occupation of Crimea is distinctly not like… more ›

• Crisis of Meaning (And Yes, You Will Misunderstand)

  Jun 2

  Churches contribute to gay suicides, most Americans believe. I wonder if blaming region also somehow gives it more power or credence in the lives of those who would commit suicide. It… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Significance

  Feb 5

  The first time I had sex after my father died my orgasm was amazing. It was as if my physical joy was supplemented by the knowledge that his body already… more ›

• Breakup + Breakthrough = Still Broken

  Apr 24

  Once, if I remember well, I had to end an intensely demanding relationship with someone much younger whose native language was not English. We had been playing at breakup for… more ›