Category Archives: Rants

I’ve started having dreams where I forget to wear masks indoors. It’s the pandemic equivalent of the “naked in the middle of the cafeteria” dream. Over the last few weeks, I breezed through the violent, charismatic, intolerable tragicomedy that is the first five seasons of Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy, man… what a beautiful man; aContinue reading “A brief review of Peaky Blinders”

At first you don’t notice, despite the New Yorker and Jezebel articles, despite #MeToo and your own friends’ upbringing; despite your own bringing. You understand it intellectually; the idea of it; but you don’t feel it to the core of your bones, the way that it eats your skin from the inside. Macho, machismo –Continue reading “On the Identification of Male Privilege”