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Category Archives: Lit Review
Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson
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”
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/
Aida Rends 