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Sleeping Naked With “Just a Friend”: Examining the Line Between Relationships, Friendships, and Fuckingships

January 17, 2016

by Hari Ziyad
A friend asked if he could sleep naked in bed with me. A few days before, I lay naked in the arms of another man—a friend too, perhaps my best, but a lover first, I thought. […]

The Spectacle of Black Death: Remembering Our Killed or Rekindling Their Murders? Part 2

January 6, 2016

by Phillip B. Williams
In her book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson writes, referring to President Obama’s administration deciding on May 2009 not to release photos depicting the torture (among other things) of Afghan and Iraqi prisoners in American custody, “If you don’t want to inflame via images of the behavior, then you have to stop the behavior.” […]