Chanukah, already

I didn’t write earlier about the weird­ness of seeing Cha­nukah things in the shops here. (Hmmm. I said I was going to run this journal with a Chicago Manual of Style until I got back from the US but I don’t have it with me. For now I’m...

Enormity

As we’ve driven across the vast mid-west of Amer­ica, I find myself think­ing about polit­ics and the wide­spread lack of Amer­ican aware­ness of the out­side world. There seem to be a couple of reas­ons that leap out imme­di­ately: with the excep­tion of...
We’re queer, we’re here and we’re still doing theatre

Death of the Commons

I’ve been chat­ting with catvin­cent about this latest ker­fuffle of Six Apart ban­ning a couple of users for draw­ing and post­ing homo­erotic slash (debat­ably depict­ing minors; I believe in locked posts; def­in­itely por­tray­ing power abuse but...