By Jason Jenn A pattern of bird-inspired bar names can be found in cities across the world, and while no formal conspiracy is confirmed and not all queer bars use bird names, this avian trend was... The post Avian Art Mysteries for Queer-Coded Histories appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.| The Gay & Lesbian Review
Recent attacks on Tom Hanks and American universities highlight parallels between 2025 and the McCarthy era. But our moment has something the Cold War Red Scare didn’t: the benefits of hindsi…| Clio and the Contemporary
It seems possible that this dulling may contribute to my current state of political fecklessness: while before I felt able to fight, now, with the situation seeming so much worse than in 2016, there are times I wish it would all just go away. I am used to being at least externally “okay,” even when many others are not. Whether rising above or cowering in fear, I lose my capacity to act from a grounded center. The post American Resistance: A Mayflower Meditation by Elizabeth Cutter Ev...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Roy Cohn brought his style of aggressive attacks to our campus. I too often saw him, an unattractive, thin man, agitated and angry, standing on a platform, holding a megaphone, giving speeches to my fellow students in the quad, yelling at the top of his lungs, “The red sea of Communism is spreading over us all!” as he grimaced and pointed below to the crowd of booing students. As one of the few girls in this crowd, I stood among them, appalled, but silent and terrified. The post Red Scare...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Campus novels! Aren’t they great? I say that, but my personal history with them is the dictionary definition of patchy. Most of the ones I can think of (Tom Sharpe, Lucky Jim, White Noise) I’ve either actively disliked or have zero memory of. I think I’ve had the most luck with American ones. I know […]| Somewhere Boy
