christian is writing, “Boys to Men”

author, editor, & poet | Digital Communications Manager at @UCBerkeley’s @Oandbinstitute

[christian is writing, “Boys to Men” @AGEEDUBB]

The Lady of the Door returns to Earth only to save her son. Will her all be enough to protect the one she cares about the most? Find out in my debut speculative fiction, “The Less You Know, the Better”

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Our new issue is out now! Grab single issues here: https://t.co/6kzZkce7v8

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Which leads to what are the relationships between what we fear and desire, and how does how we engage signify these importances?

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This issue aims to interrogate the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art. Pleasure does not exist in a vacuum.

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10 Poetic Devices You Should Know 💙 9. Ekphrasis: A poem written in response to a work of visual art—a painting, a photograph, a sculpture.

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Humid nights & caring madly. Ghost tails & Zoom sex. Broskis & deleted archives. beestung #27 is here! w/ Sora Anindya, Birch Wiley, Christian M. Ivey, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Lavanya Arora, KB Brookins, & Stevie Subrizi https://t.co/hPnUVUAKgo

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“The sign of the cross becomes the signifier of an impossible exception that establishes the law before which we must
all genuflect.” -Richard Boothby

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“Sexual desire is effectively what man uses to historicize himself, insofar as it's at this level that the law is introduced for the first time.” (p. 156)

—Lacan, Seminar III

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“[…] because everything is socially constructed doesn’t mean that there are no real limits that the sexed subject must recognize. Both these discourses (scientific & queer) can’t be maintained. Not all is biological, not all is socially constructed.” -A. Geldhof & P. Verhaeghe

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“Like all discourse a delusion is to be judged first of all as a field of meaning that has organized a certain signifier, so that the first rules of a good interview, and of a good investigation of the psychoses, might be to let him speak for as long as possible.” (p. 121)

—Lacan, Seminar III

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“Most Americans, most people in the world, are not willing to engage in a paradigm of oppression that does not offer some type of way out.” (p. 22)

BLACKS AND THE MASTER/
SLAVE RELATION*

Frank B. Wilderson, III | Interviewed by C.S. Soong

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“We live in a society in which slavery isn't recognized. It's nevertheless clear to any sociologist or philosopher that it has in no way been abolished. This has even become the object of some fairly well-known claims. It's also clear that while bondage hasn't been abolished, one might say it has been generalized. The relationship of those known as the exploiters, in relation to the economy as a whole, is no less a relationship of bondage than that of the average man. Thus the master-slave duality is generalized within each participant in our society.” (p. 132)

—Lacan, Seminar III

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“Just as the master signifiers are substitutes for the Name-of-the-Father, the object cause of desire replaces the lost Phallus as the only thing that can answer the subject’s lack that causes anxiety.” -Lionel Bailly

Lacan: A Beginner’s Guide

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“Before achieving this they still have to undergo a trial to free them from the impurity of their passions, from what is properly called their desire.” (p. 97)

—Lacan, Seminar III

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Our friends at @wasafirimag are currently accepting entries for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! Polish up your fiction, life writing, or poetry and submit now. Deadline 30 June 2026.

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Read the complete review here: https://t.co/LZVCTJM30e

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we are currently accepting submissions for our SUMMER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨

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deadline july 1st

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

Applications for the MWC (formerly Tin House Workshop)’s Speculative Fiction Workshop CLOSE TODAY!

As with all of our programming, scholarships and fee waivers are available! Scholarships include those for parents, BIPOC writers, and more!

Apply: https://t.co/lO0Yt9U0uz

[christian is writing, “Boys to Men” @AGEEDUBB]

“As will become clear, barebacking isn’t merely Russian-roulette sex, that is, fucking with life-and-death stakes; barebacking also raises questions that complicate how we distinguish life-giving activities from those that engender death.” -Tim Dean | Unlimited Intimacy

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“Where can the libido be placed, which can over-bear me?”

—Astrid Gessert, Introductory Lecture: Mourning and Melancholia, CFAR, 30 May 2026

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“Fiction allows fantasy to express brutal
reality.” (p. 51)

Marriott, D. (2003). The derived life of fiction: Race, childhood, and culture. In D. Moss (Ed.), Hating in the first person plural: Psychoanalytic essays on racism, homophobia, misogyny, and terror (pp. 45–68).

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“[…] fantasy is the narrative of this primordial loss, since it stages the process of this renunciation, the emergence of the Law. […] fantasy is the very screen that separates desire from drive: it tells the story which allows the subject to (mis)perceive the void around which drive circulates as the primordial loss constitutive of desire. […] fantasy provides a rationale for the inherent deadlock of desire: it constructs the scene in which the jouissance we are deprived of is concentrated in the Other who stole it from us.” (p. 43)

—Slavoj Žižek, The Seven Veils of Fantasy, The Plague of Fantasies (Verso, 2008 edition of the 1997 text)

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“The master discourse denies the unconscious dimension which subtends in conscious language. Thus, the structure of fantasy—$<>a—is the excluded term in the master discourse.” (p. 1117)

Ellie Ragland, Lacan and the Subject of Law

[Late Model Toyota Previa @LMToyotaPrevia]

“[…] black sexuation is thus a process of white seduction […]” (p. 1016)

Marriott, D. (2024). The Great Space. ELH 91(4), 1011-1053. https://t.co/RDSPvFHRZD.

[Sonia Sulaiman Ignyte Award winner! @SoniaSulaiman]

You have the chance to show your support for queer Palestinians in publishing (me). Just head over to the Kickstarter for the anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror that I’m cooking.

There’s only a few days left to support it! https://t.co/CcbnCM177w

[sarah clark (they) @petitobjetb]

"surely God had a hand in answering. the long wish
i hid under my tongue ignoring the saltiness as if it were the sweat
dripping from cruising in Sodom."