Before we ever wrote things down we said them out loud.: Recent Episodes
Alienbusterkeaton
Alienbusterkeaton reads you some of their favourite writers, for your ailing sociabilities during quarantine.
On this day his birthday, I read you an excerpt from Molloy, the first in a trio of novels written in Paris, in French, published in 1951.
Two pieces from Hilton Als book, White Girls: ruminations on mixed-race experience and American exceptionalism, mothers, Malcom X, and being queer. Published 2014.
In honour of this March 31 2020 Trans Visibility Day (whatever that means), I give you an excerpt from Judith's Butler's now 30-year-old theoretical banger, published in 1990. Chapter 1: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire. Subsections: I. "Women" as the Subject of Feminism; II. The compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire; III. Gender-The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate; IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyond; V. Identity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substance.
A short story by Afrofuturist visionary Octavia Butler about utopias, from 2003. From Bloodchild & Other Stories.
Bataille's analysis of the interrelationship between eroticism and death, written in 1957. Chapters 2-5: The link between taboos and death; Taboos related to reproduction; Affinities between reproduction and death; Transgression.
Excerpt from the outrageous, lamenting, vengeful letter written by Oscar Wilde to his ex-lover Bosie while in gaol, from 1895-1897.
The first in a series of nightly readings to ease this confusing time of quarantine. This episode features short stories from sharp wit Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Stories read include: Big Water; Coffee; Situation Update; Selfie; Pretending Fearless; 22.5 minutes; Plight.