Eugene (new story)
Hi all, I’ve published a new story. It’s my first and I might say only foray into what I would consider trans literature proper. I mean that inasmuch as you...
About my Passport, which for now has an F on it
I recently crossed a decade, more or less coinciding with my thirties, of transitioning in earnest and didn’t mark the day. Actually I knew, but I’m always...
Finer Slices
I want to suggest a few concepts for thinking about the political attacks on trans people whose pitch seems to be increasing this year. It seems to me that...
Banana
I want to think a little about institutions in terms of their susceptibility to pressure. Popular pressure, donor pressure, political pressure, pressure from...
Been a while
, and had my reasons, but it does seem a day too long. I’ve been stressed, and trying, as I’m sure many of you are, to keep my head and to keep my heart....
Sirens and the Skin, after the party
Hi all, been a while. This summer I ran a reading group at the Poetry Project, with the secret ambition that I would write a whose five chapters followed our...
Stress Positions
Stress Positions (2024), poster. I’ve been going to the movies a lot lately, in the last week I’ve seen Theda Hammel’s “Stress Positions” and Jane...
Trans Counter-Studies: What May I Do? What Must I Be?
Last Friday I paneled at a conference called Trans Disruptions: The Future of Change, and in spite of the bombastic title had a mostly good time. I think I'd...
Michel de M'uzan, Glimpses of the Process of Literary Creation (1964)
I tried to make this translation as a gift to Zach Phillips, who first put me on to de M'uzan, by way of his late article, "the hell of creativity." To be...
update to previous newsletter
buttondown messed up my links somehow. I fixed them and tried to resend, but I'm not sure it worked. here's the link to the previous in the archive with the...
Tunes to tune in to
Ellen Arkbro performing at Blank Forms, March 16 2024, picture by Vanessa Ague, I just found it on twitter, she must have been sitting right in front of me....
Rohmer in the 90s: four seasons
In the 1990s, Éric Rohmer made a cycle of films following the seasons, though not in order: A Tale of Springtime (1990), A Tale of Winter (1992), A Tale of...
Cookie Monster: another night out
new edition of Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black I spoke last night (2024-03-04) at an event at the Poetry Project for...
Into the arms of the air
Piet Mondrian, De grijze boom [the gray tree], 1911 Pulling together three passages, without having much to add to them. 1) Plato, gesturing at a perspective...
A note on "Trans Temporality"
I spoke tonight at an event (2024-02-27) organized by Julian Shendelman and Black Lawrence Press, called ABOUT TIME: Trans Writers on Temporality. There were...
Half-Thoughts: Zwergobst aka Free Game
I was planning to start this newsletter a few years ago and wrote at that time a few essay starts, which I was startled to find the other morning. I'm...
André Green, 1979, The Model Child
This article of André Green comes up for heavy criticism in Laplanche's "New Foundations for Psychoanalysis" (in English at page 81-85). I always liked Green...
What Distraction Is
Fichte on "Spiritual Non-Existence" Lately I've been reading, distractedly, Fichte's 1806 lectures on religion, translated in 1849 as as The Way Towards the...
Materials for a Mixtape that never Materialized: Second Try at a First Letter
Hello my friends, it's me again.Every so often someone tells me that they want to start a little press, a magazine, a reading series, and sometimes I'm the...
Night and Day
When I'm very sociable, or writing casually, or journaling, the same thing really, I find my words form about a dozen "raps" at any time. These could be good...