Belarus passes a law modelled on Russia’s anti-LGBTQ+ architecture. The template is familiar. The consequences will be local, intimate, and...
The Swab
How the IOC Returned to Policing the Bodies of Women
The instrument is banal. A cotton-tipped swab, the sort a GP might use to check for strep throat, pressed to...
A twenty-year-old woman from Chico, California, just brought Big Tech to its tobacco moment They brought photographs. Not as exhibits...
Half a century has passed since Rainer Werner Fassbinder completed Fox and His Friends, yet the interval feels less like...
Here are the takeaways from the Academy Awards. What did we want? “The Secret Agent” is to be a winner....
How the United States deport queer people to the countries that would kill them On a Tuesday morning in February,...
For decades, Peter Mandelson treated his sexuality as classified information — redacted, denied, strategically ignored. Then, confronted with the implosion...
There exists a particular species of cultural memory that lives not in archives but in the body’s own recall—the sensation...
I agree with Hilton Als, this excellent documentary made me extremely angry. Matt Nadel’s short documentary ‘Cashing Out’ is an...
Harry Lighton’s “Pillion” arrives with the unassuming grace of its protagonist—a film about submission that refuses to submit to expectation....











