Marc

For a paper I'm writing, I've been reading Textual Orientations by Harriet Malinowitz. It's about teaching queer writing and teaching queer students in academia, and the importance of having writing by queer people as part of the syllabus. (And, y'know, actually acknowledging those writers' work as queer in nature, rather than just omitting key details of their lives.) Of course, it's a little outdated (Malinowitz focuses mainly on lesbian and gay writers, with bisexuals treated like community straddlers rather than true members, and trans people are really only mentioned as imagery conjured by homophobes in their arguments against gay/lesbian rights.... yeesh), but some of her discussions of self-censorship ring very true for me even today.

One of my favorite rules to break in academic writing is not always referring to historical figures/writers/etc. by strictly their last names. Being able to use nicknames for people is even better

I'm especially likely to do this with trans folks of yore, particularly Lou Sullivan because he's the one I've dedicated the most time to researching and creating historical projects based on his life and work. Yeah who cares if he died before I was even conceived, I know the guy and we're on a first-name basis, ok

Cronenberg's Crash is available on the Internet Archive....................... 😎

This is a movie I've been wanting to watch for a hot minute, but haven't had access/time to watch it. Technically I still don't quite have time, since I'm working on a large piece of my graduate school application that's due soon, but I'm continually glad this resource exists.