Letters From An Alien: Postponement

(There is a new drug available-that ‘blocks’ the onset of puberty, that is beeng piloted to use for trans ‘children’ to make transition more practicable and less traumatic) You: Like all this kind of new technology it will produce new sexualities – and identities. Plenty of kids, trans or otherwise, would be drawn to the [...]

The Tyranny of Beauty

Can you have beautiful buff boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, homogenous homoerotics pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a [...]

In Defence Of…Sadism?

These are a few thoughts following Mark Simpson’s recent piece (well recently re-posted) on ‘Hazing’. http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/04/28/assume-the-position-a-queer-defence-of-hazing-2/#comments Posting this on my own blog made me realise I am totally screwed up about ‘sex and violence’. I think I am pretty fine with homosexuality! But when it comes to violence I am completely confused. Part of me [...]

Letters From An Alien: *You* need kissing, badly

You really shouldn’t leave the evidence lying round so carelessly. Miss Marple will find it all in the end… ‘I have noticed that when I get very drunk I have a tendency to snog the occasional unfortunate lady. I suspect your’re probably right that some gay men have to maintain their gay identity by resisting [...]

Unruly Girls…

‘QRG is a good example of someone I want to respect because she’s smart and sometimes says interesting things — but her constant grandstanding and insistence on trying to dominate discussions that have nothing to do with what SHE wants to talk about*, always piss me off. She doesn’t listen to moderators, she dismisses attempts [...]

In Defence Of… Hazing – Mark Simpson Takes One For The Team

http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/04/28/assume-the-position-a-queer-defence-of-hazing-2/#comments When I joined my local rugby team, I was made to do terrible, awful things. Even now, all these years later, I feel distressed and choked up recounting what happened. I had to stand on a chair as a full pint of beer was shoved in my groin, soaking it. I then had to [...]

Against Feminisms

When I make my case against feminism, whether it be in a reasonable, rational manner or an exasperated, angry tone, I am challenging the basis of ALL FEMINIST THEORY. People say to me, ‘you can’t generalise like that’ ‘feminism is not a monolithic group’ ‘there are many branches of feminism’ ‘feminism is a broad church’ [...]

Pictures of Dead Women Sell Magazines

This spread for Bello Mag as featured in Oh La La, continues that eerie theme shown to be popular in women’s fashion photography in particular at the moment: the corpse look. http://www.ohlalamag.com/.a/6a00e54fb7301c8834014e880ca2be970d-pi I don’t know why this is, apart from the general feeling of ‘end of times’ that pervades our visual culture these days. Vampires, [...]

The Marabar Caves All Over Again

‘The scene in the Marabar Caves is a good substitute for violence.’ – E.M. Forster ‘Rape culture is the objectification of women, which is part of a dehumanizing process that renders consent irrelevant.’ http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html When a man was jailed and placed on the sex offenders register for life in America, recently, for ejaculating into a [...]

Excerpt from REFUSE By Elliott Deline

This is an excerpt from REFUSE  the debut novel/memoir by Elliott Deline. Mark Simpson has praised the book, saying: ‘All writers are born in the wrong body, but it happens to be the reader’s good fortune that Elliott DeLine was literally born in the wrong body…Funny, cynical, tough, vulnerable, honest, deluded, sagacious, self-loving and self-loathing, [...]