Posts Tagged ‘ let the soft animal of your body love what it loves ’

post-election: on love

Nov 5th, 2008 | By Sinclair | Category: activism, theory

How can I write about anything except politics right now? Obama, Obama, Obama. Fivethirtyeight had the projections almost completely accurate. I didn’t see too many major voting mishaps – aside from the long lines at polling places which, as we all know by now, are the new “poll tax.” Which is reassuring! In the last [...]

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October’s Queer Activism

Oct 11th, 2008 | By Sinclair | Category: poetry, theory

On October 6th, 1998, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, beaten, and left for dead - because he was gay. He was taken to a nearby trauma hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, and died on October 12th.
I lived in Fort Collins at the time. I was not out, I was living [...]

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