A week ago, walking to Taco Veloz, a late-night Mexican Restaurant in Chicago, my sometimes lover-friend-ex Emily and I talked about each others’ projects. She started reading queerradical.com not too long ago. She joked that my tone was somewhere between Mr. Rogers and Durruti. Cute comparison. She observed that I sound like I know what [...]

Today I finished Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare. This lyrical collection of Clare’s essays deftly navigates the borderlands between disability, queerness, class, education, environmentalism, race, and gender. Particularly his economic analysis of the freak show as a site of resistance and profit in a world that denies disabled people opportunities [...]

Dear Slutty-Pants Fence-Sitter- Tell me about the wonder, beauty and utility of assholes. I love them. I think they may be the portal to enlightenment. Yours in sacred splendor, Daddy Butt-Slut Dear Daddy Butt-Slut, The magikal asshole must be avoided at all cost by fuddy-duddy rationalists who believe in centralized power. Playing with assholes destroys [...]

My badass friend Tobaran just sent me the following article.  In Toronto, Pride Parade organizers have banned Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from marching. What the faggot fuck? Daddy-Faggot-In-The-Sky, damn homo-assimilation. How embarrassing?  Why do these dip-shit mainstream gay norm assholes keep stomping on our radical queer legacy? Why can’t Pride include political critique? If it [...]

I finished reading The Future Lasts Forever, Algerian-French philosopher, Louis Althusser’s painful account of his life, psychological makeup, relationship with his wife, and involvement in the Communist Party (as an outspoken critic during Stalinism and the period when the party sold out the revolutionary movement in France circa May of 68). In detail, he describes [...]

Saturday night, after a long day of reunions with old friends that culminated in an awkward stint at an old familiar hetero-bar with people I used to know, my friends LJR and Scott dropped me off in Boys Town, where I wandered around combing the bars for men and coming up with next to nothing. [...]

Friends know I have a terrible time leaving a room. Travel, which I love, is often torture to begin. I’m a failure at saying goodbye. I’m like a petulant kid. I had lunch with my friend Jerrilyn today and she looked at me strangely as I described how anxious I get when I leave the [...]

Most hipster Marxists know that Louis Althusser, author of Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus strangled his wife and wrote a book about it, The Future Lasts Forever. Few people who’ve not read the book know the following juicy, gossipy tidbits:

Somebody cancel my flight to China. Their faux-communist government fucked up again. This afternoon I planned to write a story about China’s first-ever sex theme park, Love Land. Now, I’m reading the Chinese government shut it down. Why the fuck would they do that? I’m a liberationist. I’m a believer in economic equality. I love [...]

Capitalists and government officials wreck the economy, shut down factories, kill the job market, and get cranky when people turn towards sex work. Those very same ruling class hypocrites privately frequent sex workers and then go out in public and condemn them. Assholes like South Carolina’s Attorney General, Henry McMaster, are wasting public dollars, threatening [...]