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‘…, I no longer blamed myself for the sexual assaults I’d survived. I saw it like this: I could let myself sink in self-blame and self-pity or I could float and swim in this open water full of ambiguity’. (p. 241) ‘Love is abundant, an unlimited resource’ (p. 256). The aesthetics of the unlimited in … More If people really chose to be around those that offered most to them, they would not choose people by their limitations. Let’s go for people like Dean Atta, as described in his 2024 memoir, ‘Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer body’.

Let’s take a break from the malign influence of the populist feminists’ treatment of binary sexual difference, as, in Foucault’s words, ‘a causal principle, an omnipresent meaning’. Simple formulae validating themselves as ‘biological science’, not biological oversimplification,  have popular appeal but undermine equality based on diversity. Let’s celebrate Stephen F. Eisenman (1989) ‘Gauguin’s Skirt’, London, … More Let’s take a break from the malign influence of the rightwards-tending populist feminists’ treatment of binary sexual difference, as, in Foucault’s words, ‘a causal principle, an omnipresent meaning’. Simple formulae have popular appeal but undermine equality based on diversity. Let’s celebrate Stephen F. Eisenman (1989) ‘Gauguin’s Skirt’, London, Thames & Hudson.

‘Cooking the Books’ is a phrase used so regularly to mean ‘falsifying financial accounts for the purpose of tax avoidance or impressing company shareholders, that we forget that any book is entirely a preparation, often refined to high degrees of their readership’s taste, of raw materials that have cruder forms – forms less satisfying to … More Let’s cook the books!