2025: The year I made a profit from my poetry. Whew, 2025. One day in your courts is like unto a thousand years…and not in a fun way. I am determined to live my best life until I’m hauled off to the transgender re-education camp. More cats, more sex, more shiny things. As a friend
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Richard Conway Jackson, a dear friend and longtime contributor to this blog, died in his home in Lake Los Angeles on December 1, at the age of 66. Richard and his wife Vanity with our family at the Whately Inn for my 50th birthday in 2022. Richard was a self-taught poet, tattoo artist, and car
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Last one of the year! Has 2025 seemed to anyone else like it lasted 1,000 years? Anne of Green Gables fans have been queering the title character’s passionate friendship with bestie Diana for a long time, but do you know about her genderqueer son Walter? In this essay at the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s CBC Arts
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The theme this month is that there is no theme. My fellow midlife transitioner, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, has written an excellent new book with the waggish title of DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? (Penguin Random House, 2025) Part memoir-in-essays and part cultural criticism, DILF covers the fraught but inseparable relationship between transmasculine people and feminist
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Spooky season is upon us, somewhat redundantly when every day is terrifying. Pumpkin spice dictatorship, anyone? I’ll take mine to go. Your boi was interviewed on the queer storytelling site I’m From Driftwood, an archive of short videos by LGBTQ folks talking about pivotal moments in their lives. Watch me talk about becoming Mommy-Man in
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This month, I started my coursework for Year 3 of the Temple of Witchcraft Mystery School, focusing on shamanism and shadow integration. So let’s begin our links roundup with an article from Temple founder Christopher Penczak, addressing the key question for my spiritual practice in these times: what can magickal practitioners do about the destruction
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“‘Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,’ says Wernher von Braun.” Rest in peace to that great satirist of American warmongering, Tom Lehrer, who exited this mad world in July at the age of 97. The Harvard-trained mathematician’s fame rests on his catalogue of political humor songs
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All writers have a shtick. Garth Greenwell was musing in our online book group today about his fondness for the word “little” as a substitute for the affectionate diminutive endings that English lacks. The novel he asked us to read this month, David Szalay’s noir tragedy Flesh, should win the Booker Prize for Most Occurrences
Happy summer! (Just kidding, I hate summer.) It’s time for my monthly effort to close all my open browser tabs before the End Times. Bestselling crime novelist Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress and many more) talks about being both Black and Jewish in this 2022 profile from The Jewish Chronicle (hat tip to
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It’s June–that month when we shove our lifestyle down your throat. You know you want it, baby. Via the novelist Robert Jones, Jr.’s Substack, I discovered another Black queer radical newsletter, ToussaintF12’s notes from the edge of empire. His latest post, “queer as in ‘rocket launchertttt’”, is a snappy and well-researched battle cry for the
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