Status Updates From Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft...

The sexual hegemony of the bourgeois family as a reproductive enclosure on displaced proletarian desires 🤯 Oh, how i've missed you gay space furry kink marxism.

“The ritual drowning and consignment of sodomites’ bodies to the abyss was part of a moral geography associating political power with dominion over water[…]; losses of power were figured in narrative accounts of drowning, shipwrecks, and the oblivion of the deep. The drowning of the sodomite produced signs of his foreignness, of his lack of control over his own appetites, his moral culpability.”

This gon be one of those that takes forever to read bcuz of crunchy academic language but I definitely love it so far. Gay history ftw

Wish I got a chance to return to this earlier. Chitty is uncovering such a novel history here. It’s fascinating. I’m eager to finish the history portion and move on to the implications Chitty draws from them in the second half of the book.