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imaginary teen girls 1: trans desistance, tummy holes, and Arkansas
The bills passing this week in Arkansas, Alabama and elsewhere have a direct relationship to the figure of the innocent teen girl created by anti-trans…
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Dangerous Boys 2: Lost Boys (1987)
Vampires, innocent little brothers, bad boys who aren't allowed to be bad, and victim-blaming
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Dangerous Boys: Point Break (1991)
Himbos, cops, surf-thieves, Keanu Reeves, destructive mutual desire, and macho childhood.
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Saving Each Other: Work In Progress (2019)
Self-sabotage, denial, responsibility, babyqueers versus bitter middle age, and the discomfort of seeing ourselves
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Seduction, Corruption, Desire, Part 3: Sydney Krukowski in Dykes To Watch Out For
enemies-to-lovers-to-dyke-with-tenure-and-librarian
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Seduction, Corruption, Desire, Part 2: The Music Man (1962)
The seduction of small-town America, outsiders in love, and the expansion of the state
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Seduction, Corruption, Desire Part I: One, Two, Three (1961)
Cold War America wants other people to be masochists, and James Cagney is hot
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hal reads the comics and watches the movies and thinks about virtue and corruption and childhood and power, but in like, a chill way
Welcome to innocence itself is no protection by me, Hal Schrieve. gay/ children’s librarian /author of OUT OF SALEM. Sign up now so you don’t miss the…
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innocence itself is no protection
hal reads the comics and watches the movies and thinks about virtue and corruption and childhood and power, but in like, a chill way

innocence itself is no protection

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