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On Sunday, June 12th, 2016, the most fatal mass shooting in American history took the lives of 49 LGBT people and allies. Up to this point, there had been a culturally pervasive sense that the upward trajectory in the cause of LGBT rights meant that LGBT people were becoming less susceptible to bigotry and violence […]
I’m masturbating across the hall from her dying. I’ve just finished giving her a bed bath. With that crazy half-detachment required when someone you love has stopped being that person. And has become instead this sickness. A moany dissolving body to be turned and agitated and tended. She can’t take soap or touch. I squeezed water from a soft […]
Deconstruction, noun. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the underlying assumptions. – Collins English Dictionary Myth, noun. The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs. – Robert Graves, “Introduction,” New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Deconstruction began as […]