Sex and Sexuality Archives

Passion. Mess. Genius. Mother.

Pamela Adlon reveals the mundane project of motherhood to be vast, fluid, and fascinating in its own right.

“The diary has challenged every category of literary analysis for me.”

“I didn’t pay much attention to what was being put in the archives… there are letters that, if I had been paying attention, wouldn’t be there.”

The secret of the Western—as Jane Campion’s “Power of the Dog” shows—is that its mythology nurtures a queer fantasy, hiding in plain sight.

What might it mean to forge a politics explicitly based in the places we are, rather than a politics of the places from which we came?