Cuckoo – Gretchen Felker-Martin
While drugs and very vaguely defined anti-social behavior were often cited as the cause for warehousing kids in violent dormitories, queer youth experienced an added layer of horror, often sent here as part of aggressive “conversion therapies” . . .
Paul Gottfried’s Career Smuggling Fascist Politics into the Academic Canon
With a figure as important to the American far-right as Gottfried, what excuse is there to lend him the veneer of academic legitimacy and to suggest his views have merit in scholarship?
Jewish Authors Critical of Zionism
Jews across the diaspora . . . have been vocally demanding a ceasefire and organizing to take action. They are part of the long Jewish tradition of criticizing Israel and Zionism, which has existed as long as the idea of Israel.
An Antisemitism Studies Primer
Often, the kind of research getting funded, printed, and promoted has more to do with the agenda of those writing the checks, the institutions that support them, and the schools who are stacking their faculty rolls, than the provable consequence of the research.
The Beast You Are – Paul Tremblay
Short fiction is its own country in the horror world. . . . You have less time to pull off a grand narrative feat, so you have to keep it simple. This is a tall order for Tremblay, who must try to stamp his brand of ambiguity onto a format that demands precision.
I adore creating self-organized, magical-dreamy, messy-beautiful spaces of all kinds in which everyone feels empowered and “in it together,” and collaborative book projects are just one more type of those spaces.
How to See Ghosts and Other Figments – Orrin Grey
The phantasm is more in how we see ourselves, or more specifically in how we mistake ourselves.
Obviously people take breaks, people burn out—who knows how long I’ll actually last. But aspirationally, there’s no end.
Even with his cosmic horror operating on a trans-dimensional scale, we are centered on his characters as they struggle through pain, moral dilemmas, and fraught relationships.
There’s something about the visceral nature of art and comics that can really land in an emotional way that totally transcends the written word.