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What vegans can learn from Disability justice
Is veganism inherently ableist? No, but often, the ways that vegans tend to express their feelings and beliefs do come with bias and...
Gay Bureaucrats Are Taking Over Our Nightlife
Last week SFPD met with SF Pride at Manny’s (where else?) and came to a “compromise” after being told that cops couldn’t march in uniform...


The Tenderness of the Post-Shame Queer Era
We must re-engage with shame.


Changing the flag in the Castro is not progress
The Castro stands for straight society’s acceptance of the homonormative gay man — and it sets the standard for that kind of gayness, too.

The Queer Pornographic Imagination
A queerness that cannot reconcile itself with the obscenity of its pornographic imagination is little more than an aesthetic.

An Ethical Relationship Anarchy Demands Anti-Racist Practice
Relationship anarchists have to be committed to ongoing anti-racist practice.


There never was a social contract
The social contract has not been broken — there never was one single social contract in the first place.

This has to stop.
What do we do when being a good person and being a good citizen are at odds?


It’s time for a NEW QUEER HEDONISM!
Hedonism without consumerism, desire without market forces, can you imagine?


On relationship anarchy in the age of covid-19
Choosing to prioritize our relationships with and obligations towards our community over our romantic or sexual desires is 100% RA


As the world of work dissolves
We hope for a cultural shift that de-emphasizes workplace efficiency and prioritizes personal agency and opportunities to care for others


Radically deprivatizing relationships
How people treat each other after they’ve been in a relationship is not a special ethical case.


"Relationship Libertarianism"
Relationship anarchy is useless and dangerous if it reinforces bankrupt libertarian fantasies of rugged individualism.


Critical Theory at the Sex Party
Queer sexual expression just is a critique of society, and we should take every chance to use our bodies to disrupt straight norms.


Enthusiastic Consent is Just Another Fetish
A demand for a performance of enthusiasm doesn't make consent any more valuable.

Cuteness, Infantilism, and Failure in Queer Aesthetics
Why do nonbinary people self-consciously adopt an aesthetic of childhood?


RA and non-human animals
There’s scope within RA to accommodate the relationships we have with non-human animals without anthropocentrism

Détourning the Acropolis with Pigeotto
There's a Pokémon Go gym at Checkpoint Charlie. And another one at the Acropolis of Athens. Why stop there?


Two ways to be intentional about power in relationships
Relationship anarchy and BDSM relationships can both be radical critiques of straight society's norms around power.
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