Inside the Little Plastic Castle

warm is the second-best[1] place to be as we see sasha_feather's lap, wrapped in a purple fleece throw, displaying the laptop lid covered in 26 excellent stickers ( Read more... )

My favorite is "No thanks I’m an indoor gay." I contributed the stylized pickle person who’s thinking "Kind of a big dill."

note 1: Best place to be is, of course, the internet.

Logic is a print-first magazine "with a small digital footprint." (Eventually all content gets online; the most recent is 2017.) The articles are well edited and political in the general sense. I’ve learned a lot browsing their back archive. Two examples from Issue 2 on the theme of Sex:

“Freaks Like Us”: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell on Queerness and the Internet

But what disturbs me most about online cruising, and especially location-based apps like Grindr, is that it seems like a gentrification of cruising. The revolutionary thing about traditional gay cruising is that it is a space that allows for people from radically different backgrounds and classes and categories to come together outside the gaze of any kind of civic authority.

When I think about the kind of people I met cruising in Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky — these were people that everything in my life was organized to keep me from meeting. I think a lot of the radical potential of queerness inheres in its tendency to scramble the usual lines of identification.

https://logicmag.io/sex/garth-greenwell-on-queerness-and-the-internet/

Cracking the Clit by Laura Frost

A new sextech site aspires to solve the “problem” of female sexuality. But why is female sexuality still a problem—and where do its “solutions” come from?

So in stroking virtual vulvas, am I an orgasm warrior storming the barricades under the banner of the sextech revolution? Is sextech a resurgence of feminism through “disrupting” orgasms?

Not exactly. The modern interface and shrewd packaging aren’t the only differences between sextech and second-wave feminism—the politics are different too. Second-wave feminists didn’t just rage against women’s alienation from their bodies, they also clearly identified the culprits: capitalism, patriarchy, and the American legal and medical establishments.

https://logicmag.io/sex/cracking-the-clit/

.... yeah yeah, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

In the meantime, please note there's a new DW comm

• queerly_beloved

  Queerly Beloved is, at its heart, a place to celebrate and support everyone that Tumblr exclusionists think don't count as queer/LGBTQIAP+, as well as queer folks with intersectional identities that are often overlooked or erased. Aromantic, Asexual, and Intersex people of all stripes are welcome in this community (yes, this includes demi-romantic/demi-sexual, and gray-romantic/gray-ace people). This also includes Nonbinary and Genderqueer people of all genders, as is anyone who could conceivably have a romantic and/or sexual relationship with a straight person.

• another Tales of the City is coming to Netflix. Almost all the original actors are back, including Dukakis, Linney, and Gross, with bonus Ellen Page

SHOWA: a History of Japan, 1926–1939 by Shigeru Mizuki - 4 of 5 stars
( history on two levels )

Visual-only sample pages at the publishers’ web site:
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/search/showa

Brief histories of everyday objects—Andy Warner - 4 of 5 stars
( the extraordinary origins of the mundane )

A sample item: undescribed comic about brown paper bags
https://medium.com/the-nib/meet-the-mother-of-the-modern-paper-bag–941e6517a870

Queer by Meg John Barker & Julia Scheele — 3 of 5 stars
( Behind the popular formations of theory )

Meg-John’s uncaptioned video trailer for the book:
http://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/sex/queer-the-video/