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My 3 Favorite Articles of 2020
My favorite articles of 2020 all coalesce thematically around “freedom,” which I am currently writing about in book form. Threading through these articles, too, is my critique of “equality.” Two articles specifically address “freedom” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: In March 2020, I wrote about how the rhetoric of “freedom” is weaponized by…
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“Oh. THAT Lesbian.” — Notes on “Ammonite”
“Borrid.” That is, “boring meets torrid.” Credit for this magnificent term goes to USC’s Karen Tongson, who coined the word to describe the particular genre of lesbianish cinema, made for mainstream/straight consumption, which play out “long-simmering romances that are in many respects about repression and sidelong glances, the indirectness of desire.” Tongson’s commentary was directed…