Imagine the hell of dying alone. So ordinary and terrifying.

the dignity of so-called "free labor," aka coerced exploitation

"But if Oedipus is interpreted broadly, as a name for the triangularity of desire, then the salient questions become: What forms does that triangularity take?" (Undoing Gender, 128)

my friend says that all post-slavery sex is raceplay. how much race is sexual fantasy? what kinds of pleasure make an act sexual or an image pornographic?

estimates range from 22,000-48,000 civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes since 9/11

(academic) success is a seemingly endless gauntlet of performance anxiety. I just want to read and stare contemplatively at light on water

Biden commits to share the benefits of globalization while climate refugees are lashed at the border

Gender self determination allows us to remember that the color line is threaded at the nexus of cisheteropatriarchy and how it complicates, erases, and modifies indigenous gender/sexual lifeways, contradictions, institutions, etc.

is there a part of us that desires to be punished for failing?

how many times will i open a new window to cope with too many tabs

Marquise de Sade's Sweetest Taboo

fashionably late capitalism graveyard shift capitalism terminally ill capitalism the late not-so-great Capitalism early post-capitalism

It's strange to me how people use the word cope on here--as an insult? What does it imply about the evaluation of mal/adjustment? Isn't posting a way of coping in the first place?

unfortunately in graduate school the act of reading becomes oriented as an extractive practice and thus can easily lose its potential as a ritual of pleasure. sadly, reading becomes an act of harvesting or scavenging citations to cover bases and hedge bets.