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Reading and Writing (from The Unpunished Vice)
“I’ve always associated reading and writing with sex,” Edmund White reports.
Queerness
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Zines From a Revolution
In his lifetime, writer and activist Charles Shively filled his Boston rowhouse with the printed residue of 20th-century queer liberation. His friend Michael Bronski recalls what he found when packing it up for the Beinecke Library archive—poetry at the heart of politics.
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Gay Ancestry
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.
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Exploring the Polity of Comics: Queer Kinship in Gay Comix
The editor of ArtsEverywhere, Shawn Van Sluys, looks at the special features that the comics form brings to politics, and the uses various North American countercultures have made of them.
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How the State Reads Queer Refugees
This addendum to the 10th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes the unique challenges of queer refugees telling their stories to bureaucrats who do not understand them.
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1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War
1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War Commemorating Gay Men of African Descent’s (GMAD) 30th anniversary alongside the legacy of black gay men organizing on behalf of themselves in response
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The Importance of Bodies and Emotions in Political Action: A Feminist Performance Workshop in Chiapas
Text by Claudia Rosas Rio Translated by Dani d’Emilia Images by Gio Leal Editor’s Note This is a story of a collaboration between two women’s organizations in the Mexican state
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Now We Know We Can Reclaim the World We Want: A Conversation with Pony Zion and Benji Hart
On the evening of Friday, April 19th, 2019, at the invitation of ArtsEverywhere, Pony Zion (De’von Webster) and Benji Hart (Benji Ninja) gathered in a conference room at The New
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Vogue is Not for You: Deciding Who We Give Our Art To
This essay accompanies Benji Hart’s conversation with Pony Zion, “Now We Know We Can Reclaim the World We Want.” It was originally published on Benji Hart’s Radical Faggot blog on
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The Church of OVAH: Transcendence in the House Ballroom Scene
For centuries the Christian church has fractured time and time again when the Church did not or would not meet the needs of a community. The subsequent Christian denominations, sects,
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Live to be Legend
In February this year, Arbert Santana, my friend and collaborator, died in a hospital in New York City. I miss him. Deeply. The last time I saw Arbert alive he
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Compelled by the Ephemeral and Fleeting
Black queerness, self-care, and the lure of the ephemeral.
