Ecofeminist Greta Gaard’s remarkable essay “Explosion,” which I quoted a few posts ago, is now available in free full text online. I’m so happy to be able to share it!
Two paragraphs into my first reading of that essay, I bolted out of my chair and bounded around the house exclaiming, “This is so good! I [...]
Jill Johnston’s 1974 book, Gullibles Travels, was the travel guide by which I navigated my lesbian youth, its wild tales of psychedelic yet political queer debauchery providing the necessary female counterpoint to the boy-heavy tales of bar hopping told by the gay men in the makeshift family to which I fled from my biological family [...]
I forgot to give the link for the blog for the Coming Out for Animals anthology. Besides serving as a reference point for potential anthology contributors and readers, the blog will be offering news and views related to the intersections among queer and animal oppression and liberation. It’s already loaded with links to relevant texts [...]
Call for Proposals
Coming Out for Animals: Queering Animal Liberation
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What do queer liberation and animal liberation have to do with each other? How does the construction of homosexuality as both “unnatural” and “bestial” hurt both people and animals? How are speciesism and heterosexism interrelated and how do they [...]
Art Pepper’s “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise” just played on my LastFM neighborhood radio station and I thought, “what other kind of sunrise is there?” That’s a good reminder for me as I work on revising two anthology contributions (one for an anarchist studies reader, the other for a collection of reflections by [...]
My lengthy silence has had some people saying the title of one of my favorite mp3 blogs: Honey, Where You Been So Long?
I’ve been stuck at the intersection of Deadline and Nothing to Say on the writer’s block of a particularly bad neighborhood. I managed to slog through one overdue anthology chapter but then became [...]
Today is poetry day in my classes. Each student brings in and reads a poem of his or her choice. I teach speech and this is the time in the term when we are focusing on using language colorfully and concisely as well as aspects of delivery such as rhythm and vocal expressiveness.
In my first [...]
