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Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS and the Politics of Shared Estrangement
Friendship as a Way of Life is a pulsing and intriguing volume. While some of the early chapters stumble through cumbersome academic prose and well rehearsed critiques of identity based social movements, the work eventually finds its stride as a conversation about friendship, queer activism, and Michel Foucault. The theme takes shape through a number of late interviews and lectures with the philosopher. The work’s title refers to a 1981 interview of Michel Foucault in the gay magazine Le Gay Pied.
Continue reading...Drawing The Line Once Again: Paul Goodman’s Anarchist Writings
6. January 2012
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While relatively unknown today, Paul Goodman was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. In books like Growing Up Absurd, published in 1960, Goodman captured the zeitgeist of his era, catapulting himself to the forefront of American intellectual life
Continue reading...Targeting the Sex Buyer. The Swedish Example: Stopping Prostitution and Trafficking Where It All Begins
4. September 2011
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“He could be your neighbor, even your best friend. Or perhaps he is a colleague at work, or someone you talked to at a party last weekend.
Continue reading...Wombanifesto
21. August 2011
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Invoking Elegua to open the musical floodgates, d’bi young wastes no time in unleashing bold soul sonic vibrations that ripple through the body and mind, swiftly but surely navigating the resulting rapids to carry us along on the raging (as in outrageous and outraged) river of her creativity.
Continue reading...Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Marriage
19. July 2011
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The gradual creep of the gay liberation movement toward assimilation dates back to the mid-1970’s. Yet, so does the critique of the process. Debate about the limitations of a gay agenda organized around marriage, military service and increasingly punitive hate crimes laws dominated the SexPanic! meetings in the late 1990’s in New York.
Continue reading...Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement
5. January 2011
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In the relatively rare moments when I happen to think about the state of sociology and what it could mean for ongoing social movements, I find it generally depressing.
Continue reading...Atamansha
28. December 2010
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Maria Nikiforova, 'Marusya,' an early 20th century Ukrainian Anarchist is an elusive figure in the history of the Russian Revolution and the Ukrainian Civil War. As the only published book in English about Maryusa, Atamansha by Malcom Archibad is dedicated to providing her story to the English-Speaking world.
Continue reading...Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth, Culture and Social Crisis
29. July 2010
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Punk, hardcore and alternative rock music scenes have been for years the almost exclusive realm of teenagers and youth in their 20s. Not only have they been areas of creative expression, but such subcultures have given young people a place to challenge beauty standards, political boundaries and cultural norms.
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16. July 2012
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