Yo Homo! How The Black Community Killed Heterosexuality (Guest Post by Anti-Intellect)

This is a fantastic essay by anti-intellect, a wonderful blogger and activist in America. I discovered him as I am currently reading Keith Boykin’s http://www.keithboykin.com/blog/ book about the ‘Down Low’ in America and I realised I know very little about sexuality in black American culture. The Down Low or the ‘DL’ has been hyped by the [...]

Must Be Discreet #1 Life Is very Long

LIFE IS SHORT: HAVE AN AFFAIR! So goes the tagline of The Ashley Madison Agency, ‘the world’s premier discreet dating service’. http://www.ashleymadison.com/app/public/indexuk.p But really, what they mean don’t they, is life is long, so long. A marriage, a monogamous sexual relationship, can seem like it goes on forever and ever into the horizon of time. [...]

Rooney, Baby

Wayne Rooney has had reason to cry like a baby recently. I don’t want to regurgitate the stories that have been churning out of the media machine. We know they have been drawing on that age-old presentation of women as either the pure, procreating Madonna or as no-good low-down Whores But I am interested to note [...]

Boy #3 : A Resurrection

When you came to after the operation, you looked just like a newborn baby. Your hair was plastered to your face with sweat, as if from the heroic exertion of pushing your way out of the womb fully grown. So what if the blue nylon hospital gown made an ill-fitting swaddling robe? Or if the [...]