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France and the Question of Consent

Ruby Ray Daily — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:00:17 +0000

Two memoirs trenchantly critique the ways in which France has framed sexual consent, legally and culturally, since the 1970s.

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Desire Can Pierce Politics: Amia Srinivasan on Sex, Consent, and Feminism

Imani Radney — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:00:57 +0000

“Given the long, tainted history of sex under patriarchy, maybe we need reparative norms around sex.”[none-for-homepage]

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What Does Erotica Reveal about Society? Talking with Pernilla Myrne

Isabelle Caraluzzi — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:00:47 +0000

"I really liked Cardi B’s 'WAP.' It reminded me of one of the earliest poems written in history."[none-for-homepage]

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America Comes Out

Imani Radney — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:00:53 +0000

Once, “coming out” was something done within gay social worlds. Today, new groups do so to refute stigma, and to reclaim that stigma as pride.

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Paris Doesn’t Always Have To Be Burning

Imani Radney — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:00:19 +0000

The documentary "Paris Is Burning" obscured the ordinary lives of queer people of color, but new footage reveals how the film could have been different.

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Getting to the Party in Time

Imani Radney — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:00:32 +0000

The best parties, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Joy claims in her epilogue to Jonathan Goldberg’s Sappho: ]fragments, are the after-parties: the parties that happen ...

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Pornotopia

Imani Radney — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:00:30 +0000

In 1962, Hugh Hefner was photographed posing next to the scale model of a modern building, echoing the portraits of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier taken a few years earlier. Indifferent to the ...

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A Fairy’s Tale

Imani Radney — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:00:04 +0000

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl tells a series of stories that we already know, but it achieves its familiar ends through decidedly unfamiliar means. Andrea Lawlor’s first novel presents us with ...

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Impossible Belonging

Imani Radney — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:00:20 +0000

If the sharp end of critique’s job is to name injury, then it also has a soft lining that is oriented around recovery and repair. Even if a particular critical project stays with injury rather than whatever might come after, what else is there to want, in the wake of naming injury, but to fix […]

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Dancing Queer Children

Stephen Twilley — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:00:32 +0000

Fans of Dance Moms and of RuPaul’s Drag Race alike rejoiced when Netflix debuted Dancing Queen this past fall. As Abby Lee Miller—the Dance Moms teacher and queen of my heart—frequently and ...

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