historian, cohost of @OffCSPod. i've written for @newrepublic, @the_point_mag, @chronicle, @dailybeast, @slate & others.
Joined February 2008
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Down with corporate Pride! Pride is a protest! Stonewall was a riot! Pride month discourse has become so predictable that we make fun of it before it even gets here.
In this episode we try to look beyond posturing slogans and history-distorting morality tales to confront the many possible meanings and feelings one might have about Pride. And as usual, we find that our debates are nothing new.
We read Andrew Holleran’s 1984 Christopher Street essay, “We Must March, My Darlings,” which suggests a cultural politics of Pride that preserves it as an annual ritual with shifting audiences and meanings, one that need not always be stridently political but which can gather a solidaristic charge in particular political moments.
Pride doesn’t always have to be a protest, and the existence of normie gays living basic is not a tragedy—it’s the ultimate goal of successful politics.
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Jun 15
Being around Europeans does remind you how anesthetized Americans are to being constantly, openly scammed/ripped off
Jun 15
One thing I miss about Germany is that it’s full of well-educated smart people with very modest income. They hate spending money – they have almost none – so everything is designed around that. The constant casual ripoffs, hidden fees, etc. prevalent in the US wouldn’t fly there.
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David Sessions retweeted
Jun 11
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
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Jun 10
Excited to republish Andrew Holleran's 1984 Christopher Street column on Pride, which isn't collected anywhere else and hasn't been reprinted since it originally ran. I'm a fan of the Holleran column in general, but this one is a gem of his craft, so subtle you almost don't notice its technical complexity.
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Jun 10
In 1984, AIDS had given Pride a new significance: "I'm marching this year not merely for the friends who have died in their prime but for all the people who are ready to see us perish—I'm marching because I can't stand that tone in Pat Buchanan's voice."
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Jun 10
Here’s a slop take of my own: Posting sad engagement bait about how “gay men are” is a bigger waste of gay libidinal energy that could be channeled into making Great Gay Art than Grindr, party drugs, or weightlifting
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Jun 10
The idea that repression and having to be secretive / closeted / sublimated makes gay art "better" is not just homophobic but *extremely* stupid and contradicted by basically all literary evidence, and I would like to stop hearing it
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Jun 10
The dumbest version is something like, "When gay men come out and identify as gay, they waste their libidinal energies fucking and don't make great art." Because, you know, fucking, that thing that famously prevents straight people from making art
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Jun 10
There's also this implication that one needs a tortured inner conflict to be creative and ambitious, which coming out resolves/deflates. Which again, LOL LMAO, if only it were that easy to be rid of one's tortured inner conflicts
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David Sessions retweeted
I just love the idea that after presumably coming out to her community, doing IVF and raising two children with her non-Muslim, tattooed, lesbian life-partner, the woman in question remains committed to full Islamic modesty dress
Jun 8
Are there any examples of actual lesbian (one Muslim one not) couples with a baby? 😂
DEI gets so outlandish it creates realities that are so fringe, or barely exist at all.
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David Sessions retweeted
Jun 9
I can't wait for the world to realize that stadiums in the USA are called like the Doritos CryptoScam Raytheon Thunderdome
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Jun 8
An underrated Derrida text
Jun 8
For all the haters: Derrida’s Eyes of the University still one of the greatest sup.org/books/theory-and-phi…
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Jun 7
My conclusion from Boston Pride weekend is that roughly 2003-2013 is the music era everyone from 21-45 right now universally knows and loves
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David Sessions retweeted
Jun 3
Edmund white was the good kind of pervert, Santa Claus of perverts, I miss him. Once John waters goes this brand is lost to society forever.
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