Teenage Kicks: QRG At The Good Men Project

I was delighted to get the chance recently to edit a theme at the Good Men Project website. I chose teenage kicks  and sought out articles by and about young men and teenagers.  These are the ones which have been published: Bully : Surviving School by Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy): http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/bully-surviving-school/comment-page-1/#comment-163054 Advice for parents of teens by [...]

Teenage Kicks – Good Men Project Call For Submissions

What is life like for 21st century teenage boys and young men? If gender roles are changing, is the change being led by young people? Are we seeing glimpses of the men (and women) of the future, via the teenagers of today? Are you a teenage boy or a young man? What issues are most [...]

HELP! Teh Internetz Is Coming!

This video was made in response to a great article at Cyborgology blog, about the collision between our online and offline selves. The author, DA Banks, was himself responding to a rather snooty piece in the New York Times by Sherry Turkle (great name), harking back to a time before our lives were taken over [...]

A Spot Of Bother – A Critique of a Sex Research Critique

According to Dr Petra Boynton, academic and ‘sexologist’, a recent study about the elusive g-spot (in women) is rubbish. This rubbish research has been reported in the media as truth. So she has critiqued the media reporting, based on her own knowledge of sex research and how it gets communicated to the public. So far so [...]

Dragapella! Introducing The Kinsey Sicks

* I first heard of this brilliant acapella group, The Kinsey Sicks, via Dan. His great blog Overuse Of The Exclamation, now features a post about this wonderful quartet.  Dan calls them wittily,  The Chicks With Schticks! Of course, ‘Kinsey Sicks’ refers to the Kinsey scale, devised by Alfred Kinsey, aka  Dr Sex. ‘Kinsey 6′ indicates someone [...]

We’re All Queer In The End: Review of The Declining Significance Of Homophobia

This is another version of my review of  Mark McCormack s new book on Declining Homophobia. ——————————————– The Declining Significance of Homophobia, by Mark McCormack, is, according to its author, a ‘good news story’. The good news being that homophobia amongst young people is on the wane. His research with mainly young men students in three English [...]

A Big Fan Of Pansies – QRG Gets The Madame Arcati Treatment

I am utterly honoured to have been interviewed by the inimitable Madame Arcati this week. Not unlike me, she is a bit of a trouble-maker, a character and a lover of the literary arts. Arcati asked me about my recent ‘outing’ by Paul Burston and Julie Bindel, a voodoo spell they arranged for me, and my interest [...]

It Gets Worse: WordPress’ New Comments Policy

A slightly worrying note from anna racoon’s blog: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/wordpress-com-and-comments/#comment-55815 ‘Apparently the problem can be traced back to a troll who had been posting comments using the e-mail address and avatar of Matt Cutts. Matt who? For the uninitiated, Matt Cutts is the CEO of Google, and when you are the CEO of Google being annoyed [...]

Smashwords Reverse Censorship Decision

This is an email I received on March 13, 2012 Smashwords author/publisher update:  PayPal Reverses Proposed Censorship Great news.  Yesterday afternoon I met with PayPal at their office in San Jose, where they informed me of their decision to modify their policies to allow legal fiction. Effective last night, we rolled back the Smashwords Terms [...]

QRG LIVES! A Links Round – Up

The last week or so has not been brilliant for QRG Towers. There is a chance you may have read some pretty nasty things about me online. At one point I considered the possibility that I might have to shut up shop altogether. So I am very relieved and delighted to announce that… QRG LIVES! [...]