Beginning in June, the Amtrak Police Department (APD) had been running a plainclothes sting operation in New York’s Penn Station bathroom—the old one near Eighth Avenue, not any of the new Moynihan ones. Writing for The City, Gwynne Hogan reported a clear “surge” of twenty-three arrests for “public lewdness” during Pride month alone. In theContinue reading “Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson”
Category Archives: Lit Review
Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism’
David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History’ offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism’s revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. — Read on cosmonautmag.com/2025/12/process-and-totality/
ways of making love #2 (for BM)
bird intelligence caracols and mouses mistakes alphabetization by emotions orange peels in tea leaves leaving your lover for a while coming back disastrously teaching someone how to talk to you buying bananas for everyone even that woman you dislike being extraordinarily patient spitting in the face of danger opening a new account fire breathing toothpasteContinue reading “ways of making love #2 (for BM)”
Inquiry on the Future of Revolution, Part 2 – Notes – e-flux
A conversation between Jasper Bernes and M. E. O’Brien on revolutionary speculation and the poetry of communism. Part 2 of 2. — Read on http://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783430/inquiry-on-the-future-of-revolution-part-2
Inquiry on the Future of Revolution, Part 1 – Notes – e-flux
A conversation between Jasper Bernes and M. E. O’Brien on revolutionary speculation and the poetry of communism. Part 1 of 2. — Read on http://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783429/inquiry-on-the-future-of-revolution-part-1
Liberation Is Not Integration: On liberal Zionism, one-state fantasies, and what Palestinians actually want – Mondoweiss
The left’s view of Palestine’s future often reduces to vague terms like “one-state solution” or “equal rights for all” but few address the tough questions they raise, especially: how can Palestinians live with those who carried out the Gaza genocide? — Read on mondoweiss.net/2025/12/liberation-is-not-integration-on-liberal-zionism-one-state-fantasies-and-what-palestinians-actually-want/
Full article: On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot
Full article: On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2025.2576342
Read aloud
What was happening when the student announced that they could not read out loud? Why were they still self-conscious in a room full of striving readers? At first, I think of how my co-teacher and I have worked to make this class respectful of the learners: students who are still striving to learn to readContinue reading “Read aloud”
Open Your Eyes to Open New York – fuelgrannie
Just who are these Yimby lobbyists behind the push to rezone Soho and Noho? — Read on fuelgrannie.com/2020/10/24/open-your-eyes-to-opennewyork/
To fight against the annihilation of thought: an introduction to Of Weapons and Words – Overland literary journal
The unthinkable, after all, is what Zionist fascism and US imperialism excel at performing — with both indiscriminate savagery and surgical precision — and every act is intended to leave thought behind; stop thought dead in its tracks. Our comrades in Palestine and elsewhere bear witness to this and give it the lie at everyContinue reading “To fight against the annihilation of thought: an introduction to Of Weapons and Words – Overland literary journal”
Aida Rends 