November 6, 2025
Hipster irony is just more of the same: straight (male) resentment and self-righteousness masquerading as progressive politics.
April 29, 2025
Democrats fight to secure and defend a boy's right to become a man who desires like a woman/mother. That's the maternal politics we need.
February 5, 2025
Trump's Executive Order to restore "biological truth" is a will to power that expresses his desire to be saved from "immutable" biological reality. It gives renewed meaning to David M. Halperin’s argument, made in *Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography*: Whenever we (i.e., bodies that incarnate different truths) hear the Trump Administration “invoke the notion of ‘truth,’ we reach for our revolvers."
November 18, 2024
The 2024 U.S. presidential election revealed a surprising Republican victory, driven by fear among voters, particularly regarding immigration and social changes. This fear can lead to manipulation and threatens democracy. In contrast, hope, faith, and love present pathways to overcoming fear and fostering a more compassionate political landscape.
September 9, 2024
II am no apologist for monogamy. Yet, most people desire it for themselves. And most people, even those for whom it seems to be working out well, don't seem to love monogamy. I think that is interesting. Most people don't love monogamy, but yet they still believe in it. So, it is worth asking: What promises to make loving monogamy promising? My answer is irony. Irony is the key to loving monogamy. Or so I will argue in this essay.
January 26, 2022
* “Once upon a queer theory” is Brintnall’s contribution to the turbulent tradition of queer narration. In this essay, he highlights a pervasive fantasy underlying that tradition, the fantasy that queer narration is merely narration. Brintnall performs his argument both by 1) telling a story that centers the work of Teresa de Lauretis (she coined the term “queer theory” in the 1990s), and by 2) consistently and explicitly problematizing his narrative. In “Once upon a queer theory,” Brintnall, faithful to his subject, offers a queer narrative of queer theory. In what follows, I summarize Brintnall’s queer narrative. I conclude
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