Category: Academic
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A Public Apology to Siksika Nation (AA Bronson, Toronto Biennial of Art)
A Public Apology to Siksika Nation is an artistic research project by AA Bronson towards Indigenous reconciliation. Bronson’s great-grandfather, the Rev. J. W. Tims, was the first Anglican missionary to arrive on the Siksika Nation. Part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Nation was one of five First Nations to sign the seventh treaty between the Crown and the First…
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Sexing the Archive: Gay Porn and Subcultural Histories (Radical History Review)
With João Florêncio. This article draws from porn studies and queer historiographies to draw some methodological considerations about the value, benefits, and challenges posed by porn archives to the writing of queer subcultural histories. Rather than trying to solve porn’s double ontological status as both documentary and fantasy, the authors locate in that defining feature…
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On Faggots and Class Struggle (Pinko)
In 1976, a conference attempted to suss out the intimate connections between social reproductive labor and faggot organizing. I introduce a troubling and remarkable excerpt from the documentation of this conference in the most recent Pinko.
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100 Objects: An Archive of Feelings (Schwules Museum)
The Wunderkammer exploded! With Peter Rehberg, I co-curated this exhibit, running from April to November, 2020, at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, where I have been a board member since 2018. Including work by Felix Gonzales-Torres, Marc Martin, Rosa von Praunheim, Alexa Varzhon, Krista Beinstein, Albrecht Becker, Petra Gall, Jürgen Baldiga, Annette Frick, Josè Sarria,…
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Time Is A Queer Thing (Media Guru)
A zine featuring my text on queer art, and images by Sholem Krishtalka, Florian Hetz, and Peter Welz, published by AA Bronson’s Media Guru Editions. USA/Canada: Buy online from Printed Matter. Europe: Buy directly from me. An excerpt: I was talking with a friend once about queer mentors and I said I felt lucky to have so…
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Interview | Saga Studentradion
I chatted about my academic work with Uppsala student radio. Thoughts on the ways in which Western queer logics have appropriated concepts from indigenous cultures in the creation of our current terminology, the importance of having a queer history both for queer people today and for world history in general, and the importance of seeking…
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Remembering Harry Hay (Jacobin)
Harry Hay would have been 115 this month. His life and work as a gay man and a Communist helped lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ movement. The kind folks at Jacobin let me rant about my favorite subject.
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In the Archives | Friedrich Radszuweit and the False Security of Collaboration (OUTHistory)
Accommodation and collaboration are moral and political failures, even on their own terms. There is no sure path to safety except to win the fight for the kind of world we want. On the blog at OUTHistory today discussing gay fascists and collaborationists, past and present.
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Review | The War On Sex (Lambda Literary)
We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex, a new collection of essays from Duke University Press edited by David Halperin and Trevor Hoppe. Reviewed this excellent collection of essays…
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Dramaturg’s Note | The Walk Across America For Mother Earth (Circuit Theatre Company)
Prepared for the Circuit Theatre Company’s performance of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth by Taylor Mac, at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. — The Radical Faeries are a decentralized group, one that defies easy description and categorization. Generally speaking, Radical Faeries are queers (many also identify as gay men) who view…