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Comment on A Leather Conversation with Sassafras Lowrey and Sinclair Sexsmith by More lessons from Roving Pack – what if leather wasn't about sex at … | Leather

More lessons from Roving Pack – what if leather wasn't about sex at … | Leather — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:06:55 +0000

[...] Last month Sinclair Sexsmith and I sat down and talked about leather writing for Lambda Literary onl…. They have a new anthology that just released (that I’m in!) and I’d just put out the call for Leather Ever After. We were talking about our own work and relationship to being leather writers, as well as the books that have been the most inspirational to us and that each of us would consider to be the Leather canon. It was a fun conversation in general and I’m really grateful to Lambda Literary for facilitating it happening. The part that ended up being the most interesting for me was the perspective difference that emerged around sex and leather and the ways in which we relate to them and how we see them relate or not relate to one another. [...]

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by joey

joey — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:57:59 +0000

“He was worried that Corall’s criticism taken to the extreme would exclude these concerns… “

Now there’s the sign of a sharpened intellect… it really does seem like a worry these days that we might stop being concerned with image and looks and start thinking too much about content.

I shudder to think where we would be without the body beautiful… free of the body fascism, maybe avoiding some manifestations of racism, transphobia, fatphobia and ableism.. talking about things that matter more. Yeah, I shudder.

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by joey

joey — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:48:36 +0000

bahahah. yeah you are so right.

I’m very confused that Fitzpatrick can’t tell the difference between beauty, as a poetic subject, and who white gay boys think is looking hot.

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by Ricky subjunctive

Ricky subjunctive — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:17:22 +0000

and we wonder why there is a faux glass ceiling between us and the straight community. why we are constantly the talk of the town, the freak show to be gawked at. how truly divided and uninterested in one another’s mindsets we are. we’ll never rise up because we secretly love our divisive, self-loathing tail chasing.

Comment on 24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced by Tinseltown « www.barrybrennessel.com

Tinseltown « www.barrybrennessel.com — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:43:00 +0000

[...] Finalist, 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards [...]

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by On Beauty, Excess, and the Limits of Identity Politics in Lambda and Beyond - Montevidayo

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:19:08 +0000

[...] arisen about beauty, style, race, and privilege in contemporary American poetry. Over at Lambda, a piece by Jameson Fitzpatrick has come under fire for championing the self-presentation of NYC poet Alex Dimitrov, the organizer [...]

Comment on 2011 Fellows by CHING-IN CHEN: committed to writing as a regular practice - Litseen

CHING-IN CHEN: committed to writing as a regular practice - Litseen — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:47 +0000

[...] short story. She does not normally wear blazers, or drink lattes. She was recently named a 2011 Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry for LLF’s Emerging LGBT Voices Writing Residency, an Artist in Residence at Dairy [...]

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by A reader

A reader — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:10 +0000

Also: who said Anne Sexton was beautiful?

Comment on Anne Sexton, Aesthetics & the Economy of Beauty by Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:02:26 +0000

Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

Comment on All the Pretty Ones by Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:34:38 +0000

This is excellent. I was wondering if there was such a thing as quality control on this website and I guess it’s random. I’m also happy to see a writer quoting other writers. When I read that other guy’s piece I thought maybe it was a copyright issue or something but now I see it was just sloppy writing. Maybe he will learn how to quote at NYU. They teach that at Rutgers apparently.