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 [...]

Mr Sunshine Man – Oxford Painted With Poetry

The illuminous Dan Holloway of eight cuts publishers recently enlisted some talented people to help him paint Oxford with poetry http://eightcuts.com/2012/04/07/oxford-painted-with-poetry/ I contributed one of my poems and didn’t think much more of it. Then after the event, where some intrepid writers went round the famous university city attaching poems to anything that would take [...]

The Possibility Of Independent Thinking

‘The entire gay male community seems at times to be colluding against the possibility of independent thinking. The gay rights movement, too often, is focused on theatrics rather than on discourse; we want to be entertained and flattered, not criticised’. – John Weir in Anti Gay (1996 ed. Mark Simpson). I was delighted to have [...]

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 [...]

Romance Is Analogue: Quiet Riot Girl’s Review of Pharmacology by Christopher Herz

‘Romance is analogue, and so very last century’ – Mark Simpson, in a comment on his blog (2010). Pharmacology is set in San Francisco in the mid-1990s. It seems like a long time ago. I have never been to that American West Coast city, but now I’ve read Christopher Herz’s second novel, I feel like I [...]

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! [...]

In Defence Of… Uncle Toms

Also delighted to see she was fervently devoted to noted Uncle Tom and all-round public-school twat @marksimpsonist. Well done, fuck off.— Callum Hamilton (@Callum_TH) March 09, 2012 I was slightly shocked to see the above tweet very recently, accusing Mark Simpson, author of Anti Gay of being a gay ‘uncle Tom’.  I was partly surprised, [...]