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‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness.

June 7, 2026

‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness. The website Idiom Origins has a brilliant page on the sentence I use in my title, ‘build it and they will come‘: discussing both its original source, … More ‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness.

This is a blog about the role of the uniform in the construction of the object of queer desire in the contexts of the militarisation of social, political and psychosexual cultures based on reading Jeffrey Schneider (2023) ‘Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany’.

June 10, 2025

‘… uniforms did not just shape and display a disciplined male body but also guided and excited the gazing eye in particular ways’.[1] This is a blog about the role of the uniform in the construction of the object of queer desire in the contexts of the militarisation of social, political and psychosexual cultures based … More This is a blog about the role of the uniform in the construction of the object of queer desire in the contexts of the militarisation of social, political and psychosexual cultures based on reading Jeffrey Schneider (2023) ‘Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany’.

To whom is the skill or talent ‘secret’ or ‘hidden’ and why is it better hidden than in the open?

March 15, 2025

A ‘secret skill’ is coolly agreed by the AI bots on the internet to be the equivalent of a ‘hidden talent’ but, even if this is a useful equivalence  it hardly solves the main problem of what either these skills and talents are. The main issue here is: to whom is the skill or talent … More To whom is the skill or talent ‘secret’ or ‘hidden’ and why is it better hidden than in the open?