Seven years ago, I met with my first gay-specialized psychologist. I was on a path of self-destruction I no longer wanted to be on, and thought this person could help. I had already been radicalized for a few years; I was decidedly “not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you” but I […]
Police Killings, Class, and “Race”
When I was doing research for How the Irish Became White, I looked at the prison population of Philadelphia from 1815 to 1824, and found, to no one’s surprise, that black people made up a far higher proportion of the prison population than they did in the city as a whole. However, when I controlled […]
Hard Crackers statement in French
Introduction We’re especially pleased to announce that our “Defining Hard Crackers” statement has been translated into French and published in the journal Echanges. The translator wrote to one of our editors to say: “I have been on the website, and it’s a mine of knowledge for us here. There’s a funny thing about the “yellow […]
Hard Crackers Contributor among Recipients of Poet Laureate Fellowships
New York, NY (April 24, 2019)— The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the first-ever recipients of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships. Among the recipients is Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. Mish is the author of What I Learned at the War (Lamar University Press, 2015) and Work Is […]
Third Class
When I was working at a failing radical newspaper some thirty years ago, someone gave me the task of preparing a third-class mailing. This meant hand-processing about 5,000 envelopes, maybe more. Third-class mailings are supposed to consist of identical envelopes, with only the addressee different. For this job, however, the envelopes were of varying sizes […]
The Dead Guy
It’s an easily forgettable stretch of Ventura Boulevard. Deep in the valley. We live up on the hill. Some actress on KTLA reported that 100% of all self-service touch screens and shopping cart handles in the San Fernando valley were completely contaminated by fecal matter. We have tile floors and prefer glass smoke utensils. Needless […]