My article For Typebar magazine Has been unpaywalled Yes YES You can read it for free now, but consider subscribing to the magazine
Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.socialwww.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/s...
You ever read Flowers in the Attic? That's what capitalism is doing to your unconscious #deleuzepilled#Monday
![“Mrs. Shortley recalled a newsreel she had seen once of a small room piled high with bodies of dead naked people all in a heap, their arms and legs tangled together, a head thrust in here, a head there, a foot, a knee, a part that should have been covered up sticking out, a hand raised clutching nothing. Before you could realize that it was real and take it into your head, the picture changed and a hollow-sounding voice was saying, “Time marches on!” This was the kind of thing that was happening every day in Europe where they had not advanced as in this country, and watching from her vantage point, Mrs. Shortley had the sudden intuition that the Gobblehooks, like rats with typhoid fleas, could have carried all those murderous ways over the water with them directly to this place. If they had come from where that kind of thing was done to them, who was to say they were not the kind that would also do it to others? The width and breadth of this question nearly shook her. Her stomach [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:n7zttrwglryfssyh2yycb5fr/bafkreifao52pfgrzlqsn4ddvt2tnbxx2jquk2prjftei33parhladqjnvq@jpeg)
you can tell the digestive state of a writer there are signs
Everybody I know has been fairly blindsided by this, so maybe this is going to ring hollow, but I want trans women entering SFF to know that lots of us are in camp "fuck off, terfs." The transphobes don't speak for us.
I suspect I'd like Han Song a lot better than Liu Cixin (whom, full discourse, I find basically unreadable), but this Hospital series sounds so relentlessly bleak... hard to bring myself to get "stuck in" such a world
annoyed by zoomers' apparent inability to take covid seriously, this annoyance mediated somewhat by the knowledge that so many of them will never have the privilege of good health (on account of repeated covid infections)
so I'm going through a Deleuzian phase in my thinking (problematizing "desire as lack" etc. etc.) it's kind of interesting to realize, then, that even before starting Anti-Oedipus, when writing on V.C. Andrews, I was already trying to historicize Freudianism www.patreon.com/posts/readin...
[regrettably still thinking about Gaiman, but in the usual, overly abstract capacity] in a society where housing is a site of "necessary exploitation" (you won't get a house unless someone is profiting off you), ownership of *an extra house* becomes a reduplicative space