My response to the grotesque
Experiments with Monstrousness
‘I weep for you,’ the Walrus said; ‘I deeply sympathize’
Who's Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler)
Who's Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler)
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
Bricolage Grotesque — Free & Open Source Variable Font
An expressive variable font that blends iconic French and British designs across three axes: weight, width, and optical size. It visually expresses what it feels like when you cannot be what you were and yet you can never truly be anybody else.
Gargoyles and grotesques: Parliament Hill’s sinister sentinels
The misshapen demons scattered through Centre Block, West Block and East Block are one of Parliament’s more bizarre architectural features. Their pedigree dates back to the Middle Ages and, no, they’re not all gargoyles.
What About the Rapists and Murderers?
Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault, murder, torture, ablelism, trauma.
The Alt-Right Playbook: Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
Well-intentioned obscenity
An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.
Mobilisation du 17 octobre : dans la presse internationale, des «émeutes sans précédent» et le crépuscule du macronisme
De la BBC au «New York Times» en passant par le «Spiegel», les grands médias occidentaux ont concentré leur attention sur les violences et les images de rues dévastées, tout en pointant la responsabilité de l’exécutif.
Fascist femboys, autogynephilia, and flattering narratives
Among those who believe [autogynephilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard'stranssexualismtypology) is real and the primary explanation for many or mo...
Henry A. Giroux on Twitter / X
My new article, “When Monsters Walk Among Us,” which argues that monsters are neither born outside of history nor reducible to particular individuals. They are produced by societies, institutions, and power that make the intolerable appear ordinary.https://t.co/eGXcLGSQcE— Henry A. Giroux (@HenryGiroux) September 18, 2026
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.
Dave Lee
Where to begin with this
