Archive for category: Inversion

Confidential to anti-racist activists: Purple hair gets you laughed at    (2016.11.18)

Stop doing what is known not to work and do something else, like sending in your biggest, strongest guys to talk to right-wing assholes

‘True Homosexual Experiences’    (2016.11.15)

The long-awaited biography of hermit pornographer Boyd McDonald of Straight to Hell includes one gem after another

Denise Balkissoon’s “sex and relationship pitches”    (2016.11.09)

Denise Balkissoon, a local vizmin girl hack who trades on those features, solicited “sex and relationship pitches” for the Globe. So here goes! (Updated 2½ years later)

‘When Men Meet’    (2016.08.21)

Some excerpts from the obscure but quite excellent When Men Meet by Henning Bech of Denmark

Paralanguage of Instagram    (2016.06.28)

Instagram hovers on top of human language. It’s a global medium without a hint of of cultural appropriation or imperialism

Nourishment    (2016.06.13)

I can talk to a man, one who commemorated the other men in his life on his very body, be taken seriously, and walk away nourished by the feeling that men like him and me matter

‘J.D.s’    (2016.06.08)

You can now read all eight issues of J.D.s in one go

Who can play Tom of Finland in the movie    (2016.05.22)

Well, the actual issue is who would play Tom of Finland’s idealized male form. And that would be Jon Bernthal, not that it will happen

What is ‘Snowpiercer’ about?    (2016.05.14)

Snowpiercer is a totalizing visual obsession with returning one’s gaze to the symmetrical features of, the gleaming blue eyes of, every bristle of hair on Chris Evans, a timeless Hollywood masculine archetype