(They/Them) Writer, editor, “too niche.” All my teachers died of AIDS (Pilot Press); Long live the new flesh (Polari Press); Search history (Queer Street Press)
Obligatory “looking for more freelance work in the new year” tweet! I write about high art, low culture, and the messiness of our bodies and identities. Hmu for artist interviews, booklet essays, op-eds, workshops to teach, and anything else you can think of
Time for the dreaded #journorequest : I’m working on a feature about being terminally online in the art world; keen to talk to artists, writers, curators, PRs about the increasing role of the digital in the art world as a work & social space!
🧵on top of Trump winning & the damage that will do, now the same centrist & neolib Dems who pushed Harris to the right are scapegoating trans ppl for THEIR loss. please share this widely with anyone you know who's entertaining throwing us under the bus...
juliaserano.medium.com/shoul…
ALT screenshot from linked to essay that reads:
An emerging talking point that generally falls under the “too woke” umbrella is that Democrats lost because they have been too supportive of trans rights, and if they wish to succeed in the future, they should abandon that position. This idea has been touted by members of Biden’s inner circle, Atlantic columnists on The Bulwark Podcast, and incoming Democratic congressmen.
The day after the election, prominent pundit Matthew Yglesias (who has thrown trans people under the bus before) posted nine principles he thought “Common Sense Democrats” should follow moving forward, one being, “While race is a social construct, biological sex is not.” As I explain in this video, “biological sex” is both an explicitly anti-trans framing and one that is not supported by actual biology (and I should know because I’m a biologist).
Reader, she’s yet again thinking about the possibilities of a publication where people could just write interesting pieces that struggle to land elsewhere
I remember talking about this with a friend yeaaaaaars ago - “wouldn’t it be nice to just provide a home for our friends who are good and interesting writers” - and kinda always wanted to do it. Alas, funding, innit
Loved that when the trailer for Crimes of the Future dropped everyone’s like “ear man! Cronenberg’s back!” And then the movie is like “only idiots like ear man”
Back at my beloved @Into_tweets writing about one of my favourite micro-genres: how gay all of those 90s sitcoms were! This time, it’s Frasier, which understood gay panic better than anything else: intomore.com/entertainment/t…