Our Man Foucault by Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello is the author of four books, including Tomorrow’s Parties, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs, and, most recently, Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of...
View ArticleSoundtrack for World’s End by Jack Halberstam
World’s End And in 2020, the world ended. What the waves could not batter down, what the winds could not blow away, what the feral beasts could not ravage, what the sun could not burn, what the ice...
View ArticleBaffled Bunnies and Curious Cats to the Rescue: Covid19 Comix from Singapore
by Sonny Liew for Bunker Bloggers (originally published on the author’s FaceBook page on March 16, 2020, reblogged by permission of the author) “Baffled Bunny & Curious Cat” by award-winning...
View ArticleThe Virus and the Plague: Albert Camus on COVID-19
By Debarati Sanyal, guest contributor for Bunker Bloggers In this time of coronavirus, Albert Camus’s classic The Plague (1947) has shot to the top of literary charts. Set in Oran, a city in formerly...
View ArticleQueer Coronasutra, or, How to have promiscuity in a Pandemic
By Eng-Beng Lim for Bunker Bloggers “We are able to invent safe sex because we have always known that sex is not, in an epidemic or not, limited to penetrative sex. Our promiscuity taught us many...
View ArticleWhat the Storm Blows In…by Jack Halberstam for BunkerBloggers
That feeling when…every dystopian novel you have ever enjoyed, read and reread is suddenly happening in your own neighborhood! While my mind immediately turned to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the...
View ArticleSmashing the Facade of a Hong Kong Ideal
Photo by Brayden Law on Pexels.com By Denise Tse-Shang Tang, guest contributor for Bunker Bloggers “I only have time to die but not enough time to get ill.” As U.S. and Canadian universities catch up...
View ArticleTeaching at Zoom University
By Tav Nyong’o for Bunker Bloggers I don’t think much about the heady days of Web 1.0 anymore. Remember those? The breathless techno-utopianism of the 1990s seems a little ludicrous in retrospect. That...
View ArticleWelcome to the Apocalypse
By Lisa Duggan for the Bunker Bloggers As we shelter in place, socially distance and join Zoom University, the Bully Bloggers have decided to Bunker Blog. Treading water as the flood of multiple...
View ArticleJust Joking: Notes on the Comedy of Hannah Gadsby By Jack Halberstam
In an interview with Indie Wire recently, Hannah Gadsby ripped into the now-disgraced comedian, Louis C.K.: “He’s a joke now,” she said, “and it is important to keep making that joke.” This, in A very...
View ArticleA (K)night of a Thousand Butches by Jack Halberstam
A Butch Knight complete with large sword TV giveth and TV taketh away. Over the course of a few memorable evenings of television viewing recently, millions watched as Arya (Maisie Williams) and Brienne...
View ArticleHands on a Hard Body: Remarks on Graduate Advising as Emotional Labor
Guest post by Drew Daniel When I was a grad student at UC Berkeley in the late 90s, S.R. Bindler’s documentary “Hands on A Hard Body” came out. The film is a gripping representation of a Texas truck...
View ArticleTHE FULL CATASTROPHE
by Lisa Duggan Sex is never a good idea. It is a mess. It is the scene of desire and fantasy, of power and abjection, of domination and mutuality. Sometimes all at once. It is a bad idea we pursue,...
View ArticleThe DeVos University Online Sexual Harassment Training Course
by Jack Halberstam Dear Faculty: Welcome to the DeVos University where our motto is: Reddere Ludere or Pay to Play. Redde ludere As part of your orientation to your shiny and new look university, we...
View ArticleVertiginous Capital Or, The Master’s Toolkit by Jack Halberstam
Crisis upon crisis, we are living in a storm of epic and growing proportions. Every day a new travesty of justice, a new police-authored crime, a new violent executive order is issued on behalf of...
View Article“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND EVERYBODY ELSE” by Paul Preciado
This is a guest post by Paul Preciado, Philosopher. Preciado’s piece was first published in French in Liberation on January 15, 2018 under the title “Letter d’un homme trans à l’ancien régime sexuel.”...
View Article#DemandBetter Straight Sex! By Angela Jones
This is a guest blog by Angela Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College. The year is 2018. A cis woman lies beneath her cis male partner. He grabs her naked thighs and thrusts...
View ArticleBad Girls: On Being the Accused
By Jane Ward Jane Ward is a guest blogger from the University of California Riverside and the author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (2015). All these mother fucking men. These men who grope...
View ArticleThinking Bad Sex
By Jane Ward Jane Ward is a guest blogger from the University of California Riverside and the author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (2015). Many of my students’ comments about sex have...
View ArticleStructures and Events: A Monumental Dialogue
Two noted scholars of indigenous and black culture and politics Jodi Byrd and Justin Leroy sat down to dialogue about #MonumentsMustFall. Jackson, from behind. Photo credit: Eric Gary Anderson By Jodi...
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