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essays & articles

some (many) of these could easily fit into two or more categories! i've sorted them by what i find to be the most pertinent themes of each piece, but as is always the case w/ the humanities, these are non-exhaustive and non-exclusive in placement.

disability, health, and the body

  • Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time, by Ellen Samuels, 2017
  • Your Brain is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside, by Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, and Heather L. Eisthen, 2020
  • Lessons from Susan Sontag, by Ryan Thorneycroft, 2025
  • Against Interpretation, by Susan Sontag, 1964
  • Out of the frame: disability and the body in the writings of Karl Marx, by Staffan Bengtsson, 2016 (not recommended unless you are versed in Marxist theory already, and ready to dissect the foundational deficits and failings in its regard for the disabled population from the viewpoints of Marx himself.)
  • The Social Model of Disability, by Tom Shakespeare, 2010 (a relatively short and accessible introduction to the social model of disability, its merits, and its shortcomings.)

    • marxism and sociopolitics

  • Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco, 1995
  • Communism and the Family, by Alexandra Kollentai, 1920
  • Fascism and the Workers' Movement, by James P. Cannon, 1954
  • Order begins at home: Christian nationalism and control over children, by Samuel L. Perry, 2025

    • arts, humanities, and YOU!

  • Bringing Sexy Back, by Kate Wagner
  • You've Been Traumatized into Hating Reading (and It Makes You Easier to Oppress), by Ismatu Gwendolyn, 2024
  • Artisanal Intelligence: what's the deal with AI art, by Pol Clarissou, 2023

    • other points of interest

    misc resources and fun things that have yet to be sorted into anything larger.

  • The Magazine Rack, on Internet Archive. Happy digging!! Truly never ends. I personally love trawling thru the fashion mags, but you'll never run out of new things to stumble on.
  • How to Be Poor in America, a collection of resources regarding exactly what it says on the tin. Housing info, disability, and more.
  • Marxists Internet Archive. Feeling overwhelmed and don't know where to start? Here's their encyclopedia! Remember: No one hones their Theory Chops overnight! You can do this!!!
  • Archive of Destruction, an archive of contemporary-leaning art pieces that have been destroyed and vandalized, both unintentionally and intentionally, whether by individuals, governmental and institutional powers, or forces of nature. a wonderful and thought-provoking art piece all its own by Jes Fernie.
  • Lavender Zines Queer Archive, a wonderful and labor-intensive archival project of primarily late-midcentury to late-20thc queer magazines. Raunchy, candid, and often challenging to contemporary sensibilities. None of it will shock you if you trawl through old mags like I do-- but it might take some patience if you don't! Do it anyway, if you can. All of this is worthy of preservation.
  • The Al Bowlly Fansite Mp3 Player. More of his songs than I've found on youtube, or anywhere else! My only male teenage heartthrob, born a century too early. Rest easy buddy.