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How Somos Festival Unlocked a New Type of Gaycation Original
In the Zapotec language, Zipolite means “beach of the dead.” Historically a reference to the shoreline’s lethal undertow, the phrase has since slipped into double entendre: “Tbh, Zipolite has been kind of ruined by being discovered by the Instagram crowd and the ‘LA gays.’ The vibe has greatly changed over the past couple of years,” writes visualmagnitude1 on Reddit, drawing a surge of upvotes.
This Kegel Trainer Turned Me Into a Grade-A Top
Welcome to Sex Week on the Strategist, where we’re doing a deep dive on everything you need for the bedroom — from vetting the best vibrators to asking stylish people what they keep in their nightstands. For more, head to our Sex Week hub. I take my sex life as seriously as my day job, with comparably favorable performance reviews. So when a trusted fuck buddy implied my plumbing was collapsing, I responded immediately and put my hole on a PIP.
Gender Fear | Jules Gill-Peterson
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages. 2024. Last November, Pope Francis made headlines for sitting down to a spaghetti lunch with a group of trans women. The meal, held in the working-class Italian beach town of Torvaianica as part of the Church’s World Day of the Poor, was the signal of an abrupt policy change: under some circumstances, trans people could now be baptized Catholic, as well as serve as witnesses in weddings or as godparents.
How to Read Wars
The young decade of the 2020s has already seen major wars in the Horn of Africa, Armenia, Ukraine, Palestine, Yemen, and Myanmar, as well as sputtering irregular wars across Africa’s Sahel. What can you learn by looking at these recent wars? The wrong lessons, usually, if you follow the dominant news sources. That coverage almost always advances the “our team” versus “the other team” perspective.
Objectifying Prince Charming
To me, Disney and durian are one in the same: nauseatingly sweet. The first essay in Manuel Betancourt’s The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men, a collection of essays about the author’s coming out and of age, is similarly saccharine.
Sniffed Out | Reece Sisto
At first glance, it resembles Revel or Lime; however, unlike its rideshare brethren, the pins dotting the app’s live map are actually small reels of explicit content—photos of living, breathing, horny gay men who are ready to fuck. The screen positively glows with gangbangs and gonads, bevies of bussy ready to get stuffed.
Kristine Stolakis’s “Pray Away” Exposes Religious Conversion Camps
Conversion therapy survivor Julie Rodgers at church in Pray Away (Photo credit: Courtesy of Multitude Films) If good ethnography seeks to render the familiar strange, then documentary film succeeds when audiences leave the theater with more questions than answers.
The Latest Victims of COVID-19: Colleges and Small Universities
By April, most universities had shuttered their doors as the coronavirus stampeded across the country; for Urbana University, MacMurray, Holy Family College, and potentially hundreds of others, those doors will not reopen. While larger universities were being lauded for creating safety mechanisms to retain international students, they are only doing so because these students are a principal source of revenue.
Abolition, Marriage Equality, and Feminist Icons
Since last month's newsletter we've seen conversations about police abolition trending on social media, public interest in city budgets spiking with hundreds of people showing up to their city council meetings virtually, and the beginnings of a reckoning within the media industry over its complicity in upholding a white gaze in reporting.
LGBTQ People Are Still Fighting for Equality beyond Marriage
Photo credit: Juliette F/Unsplash In 1997, , professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, gave a symposium at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of a colloquium on gay and lesbian studies. At the time, the entire world was similarly roiled in a paradigmatic public health crisis: HIV/AIDS, having swallowed the globe, gave newfound urgency to the project of LGBTQ rights advancement.
Motown Shakedown
“It grew very organically out of owning our house,” Nussenbaum says. “We were thinking, alright, we’re landlords now—how are we going to do this?” Despite this offhand characterization of how his startup took root, Nussenbaum hadn’t randomly happened on the notion. He was among the forty-strong inaugural class of Venture for America, a nonprofit group that aims to “revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship,” as its mission statement explains.
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