sobek.me

An image from the LA County Museum of Art of the Amulet of Soknopaios, an amulet representing the crocodile form of the Egyptian god Sobek, from 305-31 BCE.

3/23

Dani Janae, "'Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?'". "When I say everything happens for the best, my grandmother taught me that way before I became a Buddhist...Number one, [death] teaches us how precious life is...The other thing is, if anyone tells you you got plenty of time, they are not a reliable source of information.”

Nadege Green, "The Queer Stories in Florida's Black History". "A year later, when she returned for another dress, [Naomi Ruth] Cobb says she noticed that her Bahamian mom was using 'she' and 'her' pronouns for the tailor. 'By that time, I never saw her in any more male clothes. It was just dresses.'

Critical Party Studies, "How To Party with Purp"

Janus Rose, "Why We Rave"

McKenzie Wark, "Raving: Second Chances on the Dancefloor"

Chloe Lula, "The Art of DJing: Octo Octa"

Ben Cardew, "How Drexciya's 'The Quest' embedded the Detroit act's mythology in dance music history"

Rax King, "Fine Dining Isn't Fine". "(Having spent much of my life working in food service, I can say that the only people who are reliably pleasant patrons are other food service workers. Absolutely everyone else is hit-or-miss.)"

Emily Guendelsberger, "I was a fast-food worker. Let me tell you about burnout.". "Chronic stress will destroy your body like doing burnouts will destroy a rental car...And right now, corporations kind of are treating the low-wage workforce like a rental car someone else is paying for. "

Emilia Petrarca, "Dominatrices Weigh In on ‘Fetish-Core’"

Davey Davis - "an interlude on heteronormativity"

"David Davis - on emotional risk"

"David Clemens, Part 1"

"David Davis XVIII, Part 3: Good for you?"

"It's cruising time, with Davey Davis"

Denise Bullock, "Lesbian cruising: an examination of the concept and methods."

Will Harris, "Speaking Brother"

Michael W. Twitty, "Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down." "Knowing that the enslaved people who once occupied those cabins could never have dreamed of that rainbow of people sitting together as equals in prayer, food and fellowship while my Asante and Mende roots were being uncovered after centuries of obfuscation was for me a holy moment."

Blackbird Spyplane interviews Malcolm Harris about his book Palo Alto. "I found this amazing anecdote about a RAND analyst who dropped acid as part of these experiments and said, like, ‘This was the best trip ever: I plotted all these bombing routes across Maoist China — I saw them all in my mind, in front of my eyes.’"

Zoé Samudzi, "Haunted by Denial". "I am haunted by denialism, and denialism itself is a haunting...my archival engagement hovers somewhere between séance and exorcism."

2/23

Faith Hill, "Attachment Style Isn't Destiny"

R.L. Stollar, "Love Does Not Abuse: The Parenting Philosophy of Bell Hooks"

Rachel Tashjian, "Mrs. Prada Muses on Miu Miu", found via—

Leandra Medine Cohen, "Lingering thoughts on the heels of fashion month".

Robert Moran interviews Charli XCX ahead of her performance at Sydney World Pride. "...the thing is, all my songs are hits at my shows, you know? Like, at my shows, Track 10 from Pop 2 is a bigger hit than Beg For You, and Vroom Vroom is, like, a f---ing Grammy-winning smash, you know?"

Chal Ravens interviews Karin Dreijer (Fever Ray, The Knife) ahead of their upcoming album, Radical Romantics. "Even if your first instinct is just to run away, kill somebody or fuck somebody, or do something to ease the pain for a bit [...] ...I think it’s very beautiful to be able to sit still with the shit that’s going on, and to accept that this is going on now, and to just hold it."

Erik Baker - "It Is Happening Again"

William Gillis - "One Giant Red Flag, Folded Into A Book"

Charlie Markbreiter - "'Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric': Trans Assimilation and Cringe"

Serving Capitalist Realism - “In Heaven, Everything's Alright”

Michelle Lhooq - "Exit the Clout Matrix"

Kay Gabriel - “TRANNIES, by Larry Kramer”

Meaghan Garvey - “Female Gaze: Lana Del Rey, 'I Love Dick', And 'The Love Witch'”

Ethan Warren - “Just Take Me Out of My Mind”

A.G. Cook - “SOPHIE”