“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they’re heartbreaking.[…] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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Permanent Recession: Homophobia’s Hefty Economic Pricetag
If government statistical agencies and economists saw a 1
percent drop in a country’s economic activity that lasted for a while, they
would eventually call it a recession. So in a sense, homophobia and
transphobia puts economies in a permanent recession, with economic output
below what the people of a country could produce.
– M.V. Lee Badgett- The Economic Case for LGBT Equality – Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All
Navigating Intersectionality: Black Queer Feminism in China and South Africa
“Black feminists and LGBTQ activists are labeled “hijackers” and said to be divisive or co-opting or distracting from what is important, and what is “important” is the mainstream narrative propped up by patriarchy and misogyny (straight-up hatred of women).”
― Charlene Carruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Elephant in the Room: The True Scale of Suicide in South East Asia
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Dangerous Disinformation: Sex-ed Seminar Encourages Anti-LGBT Discrimination in China
Gay men who have sex with men are disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic. In 2019, the risk of acquiring HIV was 26 times higher for gay men and other men who have sex with men than for the rest of the population. In 2019, 23 percent of new HIV infections were among gay men and other men who have sex with men. In western and central Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific, that figure has risen to more than 40 percent.
– UNAIDS Human Rights Fact Sheet 2021
BL Chronicles: The Birth of a Genre and Intellectual Claims
“So you can like girls, but I can’t like boys? Is your love bigger than the love I give? Tell me, what’s the difference between your love and mine? Help me go to hell then.”
– Your Name Engraved Herein, Taiwan
Phobia: Spike in Confirmed Mpox Cases Risks a Repeat of COVID Period Social Panic
“Really, however, it is doubtful if this could be called a victory. All that could be said was that the disease seemed to be leaving us as unaccountably as it had come. Our strategy had not changed, but whereas yesterday it had obviously failed, today it seemed triumphant. Indeed one’s chief impression was that the epidemic had called a retreat after reaching all its objectives; it had, so to speak, achieved its purpose.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
Brick by Brick – Scholar Dismantling Misconcemtpions about Queer China
The story of Queer Comrades brings together several interrelated issues
central to this book: community media, queer activism and an increasingly politicized queer identity, represented by the term tongzhi used in the Chinese name of the webcast. Literally ‘comrade’, tongzhi is one of the most popular terms to refer to sexual minorities in China today. Despite the numerous other terms that circulate in China, including tongxinglian (homosexual) and ku’er (queer), tongzhi is the most widely accepted term for self-identification by queer people in early 21st century China. – Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism
in Postsocialist China – Dr. Hongwei Bao
Queer Sexual Economics: Color Theory and the Dark Side of the Moon
“And then he thought, profoundly, how there was something grand about living in hope, but also something terribly unreal and incomplete about it, because when you were hoping, you were not doing or living or experiencing the Now,”
― Larry Kramer, Faggots
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