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May 20, 2024 | 
bombmagazine.org | Kay Gabriel |Achy Obejas
A friend introduces a friend. He’s from a mountain town in another state, and everything about him is normal. The first time he fucks me, he pulls out to come, and then he does it again. Force of habit, avoiding the pregnancy he believes possible, paying me a compliment. Skating on the pleasure of ambiguity, I don’t ask. Picked up at a queer bar, I go home with a guy for unremarkable sex, during which he decides that my vagina is suspiciously shaped. He asks if I had an operation.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
nplusonemag.com | Kay Gabriel
In May of last year, a local leader in the El Paso County, Colorado, chapter of Moms for Liberty named the actors she believes are behind a coordinated effort to make more children come out as trans or gay: “Teachers unions,” “our president,” and “the left.” She then named teachers unions twice more, painting them as the primary antagonists in a campaign to erode “parental rights.” Moms for Liberty is a far-right front group explicitly opposed to teachers’ power to set learning conditions for...
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
bookforum.com | Kay Gabriel
A memoir of AIDS, loss, and abundance About Ed By Robert Glück. New York: New York Review Books. 280 pages. $19.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
poets.org | Kyle Lopez |Kay Gabriel |John Wieners
Find and share the perfect poems. I’ve crashed a party with an infinity pool and several nude men: a Fire Island home at the back of a walkway long enough to outlast a pop song’s bridge and some chorus, flanked by phragmites on either side, tall and same-faced, so all but reed bulk hides out from the exterior. Myself included, close to everyone here has a body of one approximate build. What would it say if I stay?
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Kay Gabriel |Nadia Taha |Adam H. Johnson |Mohammed El-Kurd
Activism / Researchers, writers, and scholars can identify the institutions that provide ideological cover for Israel’s violence and then intervene to stop them.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Kay Gabriel
11 hours agoThe Israeli air force published a chilling, handwritten note Wednesday that it alleged was found on a Hamas fighter who invaded the country on Oct. 7. "The words from Hamas commanders," according to the Israeli air force, "consist of an order to kill Jews and encouragement to decapitate their …
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
nplusonemag.com | Kay Gabriel
card-default flavor-online-only type-online-only term-online-only format-pullquote tax-online-only featured- I’m gonna be five late to the lobotomy (you brainless motherfucker). Online OnlyThe People on Buses and Trains card-default flavor-online-only type-online-only term-film-review format-with_image tax-online-only featured- Film ReviewOuf card-default flavor-online-only type-online-only term-film-review format-pullquote tax-online-only featured- There are images of circuit boards, lasers.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kay Gabriel |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal |Chus Martínez
Greer Lankton’s Sketchbook, September 1977 Sketchbook, September 1977, by Greer Lankton. New York: Primary Information, 2023. 160 pages. IN SEPTEMBER 1977, a precocious Greer Lankton scribbled in a Chicago suburb. Nineteen, talented, asthmatic, embattled, she described her art practice: “I remember telling Joyce once to excuse my behavior while I’m working on dolls because the excitement overcomes me. I also have found that I don’t need sleep or food when I work just liquids.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kay Gabriel |Daniel Marcus |Sasha Frere-Jones |Craig Seligman
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
portside.org | Kay Gabriel
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards LiberationRuth Wilson GilmoreVersoISBN: 9781839761713The long hot summer of 2020 integrated abolition into political agendas on a previously unprecedented scale. Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and practice of abolition have repeatedly turned to the geographer and organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
