Arlo Parks wants to soundtrack your walk home from the club | Xtra Magazine On her new album, “Ambiguous Desire,” the U.K. star swaps downbeat musings for dance music. But even her disco is deep

& another fun one out this week: I talked to arlo parks about disco, desire and mckenzie wark:

There are few things in this world I love more than public transit, and so I loved this piece. I also love ORB (not just because it let me write 7,000 words on ways in which us coastal types are implicated in the coal economy even as we fight a guerilla war against it) and YOU SHOULD JOIN.

there's so much to see out there!

thank you to @zunguzungu.bsky.social for Seeing the Vision (and helping streamline the execution)

Seeing from public transit Around the sun, around the bay, the day after the Spring Equinox

a couple weeks ago my friend and I journeyed all the way around the bay on public transit only. i wrote about the things we saw, for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org:

A panel from Dykes To Watch Out For Sydney: Revelatory. I don't get this mortification of the flesh thing. No meat, no sugar, no whipped cream. Do you have a hair shirt under the stripes? Mo: Hey, don't talk to me about mortifying the flesh. You know what all that dairy is doing to your arteries?

Let's cook the joke vegetarian food from Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For
aftermath.site/dykes-to-watch...

My dispatch from Kyiv's queer nightlife scene for @xtramagazine.com

Despite curfews, blackouts and anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, queer clubs and raves are bringing people together in Ukraine's capital city.

An absolute pleasure working with @cohaug.bsky.social & @tmziniuk.bsky.social

How Kyiv’s queer nightlife is keeping community alive during wartime | Xtra Magazine Despite curfews, blackouts and anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, queer clubs and raves are bringing people together in Ukraine's capital city

really enjoyed working with @finbarrtoesland.bsky.social on this piece about queer clubs and raves in Kyiv:

SCRIPT IS HIRING! Come work with me! We are looking for someone *fluently* bilingual (fr/eng) who is a social media pro and who is passionate about LGBTQ2S+ health. Please share! prohttps://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4381174904/

oh dear

i had no idea! thank u for alerting me

the what now

The Tech Bro Problem in Public Art When Burning Man aesthetics meets Silicon Valley ambition in San Francisco’s Big Art Loop, the metrics of value are called into question

glad we are finally openly acknowledging how dogshit sf's public art is
www.frieze.com/article/tech...

a much-needed katelyn takedown of the atlantic! always such a pleasure editing her for @xtramagazine.com:

no such thing

i feel the same! it drives me crazy

cant tell if ai is genuinely making everyone's writing worse or if i'm just overly attuned to it

always such a pleasure to edit jude, especially on a topic like this on a week like this

what's his name

ada cafe by ashby bart randomly has pretty decent ones for $7...best deal i've found recently

I wouldn't be who I am today without the time I spent writing for Bitch. I miss it so much, and I'm so glad writers and editors are carrying on its legacy in new forms. "now more than ever" is a cliche but we really do need feminist media right now, desperately.

it was an honor at the time to see how much it resonated with people — and it's continued to be an honor over the years to have writers I work with bring it up, or students tell me they read it in class. it truly means so much <3

Love Sick It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.

I originally wrote this piece for Bitch back in 2021. So grateful to @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.com to see it back in print again <3
the-flytrap.ghost.io/love-sick/

Love Sick It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.

This week's reprint from the Bitch archives is an updated read from @cohaug.bsky.social on care economies, romantic love, and building more sustainable ways of taking care of each other.

The queer and trans songs we loved in 2025 | Xtra Magazine From Amaarae to Rosalía to Ezra Furman, here’s what we had on repeat this year

helped pull together a little roundup of @xtramagazine.com contributors and editors' fave songs from (mostly) queer/trans artists! my takeaway: violins are IN. and thank god for that.
xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...

This is the best vibe report!! Ahhhh very sorry to be on the other side of the world right now, but cherishing the report even more because of that.

Call for sources from one of our @xtramagazine.com fellows:

"Are you a teacher, ed worker, or librarian in Alberta? I’m writing about how education workers are working with/around the recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and book bans. Reach out to alicep.boyle@gmail.com if you're open to speaking."

thank u! :)

i wrote a vibe report for ORB!

‘Biology’ is backlash | Xtra Magazine Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?

ICYMI: The gender gap isn't between "normal" men and the freaks of Gen Z, nor even between men and women -- it's about people who want a return to "normal" gender and those who don't: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...