Re-imagining Hope? Or Perhaps Acknowledging New Realities...

Re-imagining Hope? Or Perhaps Acknowledging New Realities…

Simon Watney, the academic, activist and commentator has publicly re-engaged with the subject of HIV transmission and gay culture in an interview in the Huffington…

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PrEP and TasP - Beware of History Repeating Itself

PrEP and TasP – Beware of History Repeating Itself

I’ve just come back from the 2nd International Conference of the Association for Social Science and Humanities in HIV (ASSH). It was a terrific event….

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'Crap' Porn Aesthetics.

‘Crap’ Porn Aesthetics.

This post is a short response to Feona Attwood’s paper that she gave at a porn studies workshop today in Gorizia, Italy. The workshop (part…

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Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate

  This is Anish Kapoor’s ‘Cloud Gate’ which began being constructed in 2004 and which graces one of the entrances to Chicago’s Millennium Park. I…

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Interior. Leather Bar

Interior. Leather Bar

James Franco and Travis Matthews have collaborated on an ‘imagining’ based on the lost 40 minutes of Friedkin’s controversial 1980 film Cruising. Screened as part of…

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