Valerie Solanas has been written off as a worthless artist, remembered only for her violent act against Andy Warhol. We talk with author Chavisa Woods about her recent essay on Solanas, as well as her new book, 100 Times.

Poetry starves without the sharing of ideas and drafts, books and meals, misery and laughter.

There is motive to this movement, if difficult female narrators can be called a movement.

I would prefer to stay on the side of generosity.

Poetry starves without the sharing of ideas and drafts, books and meals, misery and laughter.

There is motive to this movement, if difficult female narrators can be called a movement.

It’s not fair to call the poems in THE NEXT LOVES sex positive, because it’s more complicated than that. They’re sex inhabited.

That there should be such ambiguity between perpetrator and victim is, it seems, part of the tragedy of totalitarianism: one can fully escape neither victimhood nor complicity.

I would prefer to stay on the side of generosity.

Before Picasso, kings and queens and generals – Napoleon, and such – were famous, but there wasn’t the pop culture we have today. He was one of the first modern international celebrities.

You really need to think strategically about how universities work, how they are trying to invest their capital, and then go after them on those grounds, and use our positionality as contingent academics to our advantage.

A bunch of white government dudes in bear cats and ballistic vests don’t have much unquestioned moral authority in America today

I wonder if, by revisiting places of queer erasure, both of the city and my own, and by using movement as a method for storytelling, I could re-map and re-narrate my queer disorientation within Plymouth.

In November, I had the copper IUD, called Paragard, implanted in my uterus, to ensure a 99% chance of unconceivable fucking.

What’s a movement without a few buttons and bullhorns?

What was I stealing from, then? Why did it feel so right, so pleasing, to simply take the photograph out of the folder I’d been examining, stick it between the pages of my notebook, and then leave with the notebook?

Valerie Solanas has been written off as a worthless artist, remembered only for her violent act against Andy Warhol. We talk with author Chavisa Woods about her recent essay on Solanas, as well as her new book, 100 Times.

The internet is trending again in this year’s catalogue of new and forthcoming books.

Boyd McDonald, founding editor of Straight to Hell, was the main creative force behind one of the most distinctive underground publications, in fact, the first queer zine. Self-published and crude, Straight to Hell’s sense of urgency was as strong as its contempt for authority.

Although saying the right political thing and giving some money, that can just be part of the pageant so no one knows how awful you are.