benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, bad gay, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social’s boyfriend
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2026)
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This is the stupidest day in world history etc etc
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i am hooting and hollering
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It's amazing to look back through history and discover that this was prophesized back in 1981.
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the danger ALWAYS has to emanate from the dark foreign stranger for some people. the call is never coming from inside the house
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by “diet” i mean the food a person eats. not “going on a diet”
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we urgently need a position between MAHA and, like, “it’s bad and impossible to improve human health or diets at an individual or population level”
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Yes we urgently need STS literate criticism of science, yes nutrition science is imperfect, yes all science is embedded in social reality, AND it literally is important to study diabetes, heart disease, and the human diet
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it’s the right way
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it's all giving
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we've got Desperate Attempts To Shore Up Gay/Trans Liberalism! we've got Pervasive Memes About Rainbow Corporations That Ignore The Fact That Corporations Are Dropping Pride Like A Hot Potato! we've got Not Enough People Behind The Radical Critiques To Make Them Feel Powerful! We've got Weird Shirts