THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse?

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse?

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse?

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse?

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt. SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse? QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transact SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. THAT GAY SHIT: A RUMINATION A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). CONSTRUCTING UTOPIA AT THE QUEER BEACH Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a

TRUVADA TRANCE

Truvada (otherwise known as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 200-300mg) is a combination of antiretroviral drugs that can be taken to prevent exposure to HIV.

RESOLVE/REVOLVE

Welcome to that gay shit. This is my first blog post. A container to capture what I feel must be done - and what must be undone. The challenge to myself to exhume and exhibit that which might otherwise be left fossilized, lost and buried amongst the dirt.

THIRTY BY THIRTY

A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably).

SONIC (DIS)COMFORT

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse? QUEER EMOTIONS: AFFECT, POLICY, AND WHAT LIES BENEATH The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly SEROPARANOIA AND ME: A TIMELINE Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized. That Gay Shit: A Rumination

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That Gay Shit: A Rumination

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On food & feeling: a culinary excavation What morphs the act of cooking from merely a required step for nourishment to one of care, of passion, or responsibility? Is it the specificity with which ingredients are chosen, perhaps the freshness of sharp scallions, or the crunch of young sugar snap peas? Maybe it’s time - the slow meld of a stew in a lovingly stained dutch oven, the soft gurgling of collards braising in coconut milk. More likely, I think, it is intention that is at the heart of crafting a meal designed to speak on your behalf, to unriddle stories hidden in the taste buds, to light up a face. Just as anything can be a gift when wrapped thoughtfully, any meal can be an offering if you wish it

to be.

But do you wish it to be?

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Matthew Kastellec March 30, 2019

Sonic (dis)comfort

What does it mean to have perfect hearing - but a ringing in your ears? What does it mean to lose the gift of silence, and what takes its place instead? To know things likely won’t get better, but to hope they won’t get worse?

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Matthew Kastellec February 16,

2019

Thirty by thirty

_A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). I don’t know if I’ll get to all of these, but it feels like the right time to set some goals now that I’m closing a chapter (grad school) of my life that is about as far out as I ever imagined my life would go. Onwards?_

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Matthew Kastellec January 16, 2019 Seroparanoia and me: a timeline _Seroparanoia: the weight carried by men who have sex with men over the course of their lifetimes as they navigate a world in which HIV is stigmatized, queer people are demonized, and our choices scrutinized.

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Matthew Kastellec September 3,

2018

Queer

emotions: affect, policy, and what lies beneath The last five years in particular have seen a spate of visible changes, such as the legalization of same sex marriage. Yet hate crimes and violence against queer people are on the rise, in particular for trans women of color; queer people still commonly face discrimination in and outside of transactional experiences, and in general are uniquely vulnerable as a population (W. What emotions must these realities invict in the collective queer consciousness? _Sadness. Loss. Shame. Longing. _But what policy solutions on the table are designed to contend with these negative emotions?

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Matthew Kastellec June 30, 2018 Constructing utopia at the

queer beach

If you put your ear to a shell from Riis beach, you can hear the voices of queers past, present, and future envisioning the then and there of a queerness unburdened by the weight of our world.

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Matthew Kastellec June 3, 2018

Truvada trance

Common side effects of truvada include: strange dreams and existential crises (These statements have not been confirmed by the FDA)

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Matthew Kastellec April 30, 2018

From now on

From now on I won’t think about the future, I’ll just write about it instead.  Read More Matthew Kastellec February 1, 2018

Resolve/Revolve

It’s that time folks. Time to find some resolve for the next revolution of this planet.

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Matthew Kastellec January 16, 2018

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