Lit Review

Poetry (by me! no foolin’), film and book reviews, etc.

Variations | CTWG

The mildest suggestion of a queer aporia in the gender regime sets off the obsessive policing instinct of its loyal attack dogs. The passion with which these dogs are called to defend the holy gender relation betrays their correct intuition of how fragile this supposed ‘eternal’ ironclad structure really is. — Read on ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Variations/

Red May Theses | Heatwave

Drawing on the examples of the Paris Commune and 20th century workers’ councils—’the only new invention of the communist movement in the 20th century’—Bernes distills their successes and failures into a description of communism that is at once abstract and practical — Read on heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue02/red-may-theses/