This essay, "Slurs Aren't Activism," was written to critique Natalie Wynn, aka ContraPoints , for her liberal Zionism, but also ableist critics like Bad Empanada calling her "narcissist" (affecting myself and my friends; i.e., being trans and/or mentally ill, including having various mental disorders). It remains part of my Sex Positivity series , albeit coming from outside the books, themselves; i.e., belonging to a disparate body of essays and interviews that fall under the same basic umbrella, but often will engage with more than the usual suspects: tokenism, but also bigoted allies. For the Visually Impaired: I also read the SFW version aloud on my YouTube channel. Disclaimer Regarding Essay Contents: This essay is non-profit and provided for purposes of education, critique, and satire; i.e., as a matter of professional opinion against multiple other public figures and publicly available material during times of state crisis. CW: classism, racism, sexual...
Essay: Whores, Heart Attacks, and Those Who Cause Them; or, Reversing Abjection to Find Joy Under Fascism
This essay, "Joy Under Fascism," was written to find joy under fascism; i.e., while responding to a scholar whose book I found in a used book shop after a health scare: Jill Suzanne Smith’s Berlin Coquette (2013), on sex work. Also applies to Amazons and my Metroidvania work . It remains part of my Sex Positivity series , albeit coming from outside the books, themselves; i.e., belonging to a disparate body of essays and interviews that fall under the same basic umbrella, but often will engage with more than the usual suspects: rival academics who rub me the wrong way. Note: This essay is actually part of my 2025 Metroidvania Corpus —specifically thinking about whores and violence and their depiction in and out of media; e.g., my acquisition of old books at used bookstores, and synthesizing them years later in light of crisis, health scares, and fresh love. Said essay is written to be as SFW as possible, but where this blog and the YouTube version will be more censored...