Is it possible to restore critical thinking and dialogue to the stuck, melodramatic and sometimes just stupid conversations that now dominate sexual politics?
I can only echo my excellent comrades…. You have modeled what we need: crystallized complexity and succinct sophistication. All with a sidecar of screw-it wit. Nuance becomes you. (As much as you deny it, it’s your brilliant gift. Ah, I think I can hear you denying it!) And all hail Jules, Avgi, and Ann: your work is our critical path forward.
I can only echo my excellent comrades…. You have modeled what we need: crystallized complexity and succinct sophistication. All with a sidecar of screw-it wit. Nuance becomes you. (As much as you deny it, it’s your brilliant gift. Ah, I think I can hear you denying it!) And all hail Jules, Avgi, and Ann: your work is our critical path forward.
Making the case here for writing queer nuanced polemics with cutthroat lucidity and lovely citational practice. *snap
Three cheers for nuance. I’d love to read a longer take that incorporates your work with Lauren Berlant on the Monica Lewinsky affair.