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Friends,
Just when I felt like I was getting bored with queer culture, I was thrown back into it and out of my blinkered, jaded bullshit by the queer radical author, Andrea Lawlor and their novel of full frontal sexual liberation, Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl! It’s a novel about a shapeshifting postpunk anarchist, and is, I believe, more like me than any other novel. In some ways, this is the most sexual episode I’ve ever done, because we center sex the whole time. I cannot recommend Andrea’s novel enough. It captures a time, but more importantly, captures a style of spirit and a current of queerness that is so vital for the world’s anatomy today.
We talk
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desire and detachment
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my crush on a frat boy singing “Rich Girl” by Hall & Oates
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centering sex in our politics and literature
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how “sex = death” has been replaced by “sex = harm” (and how that marks progress and stagnancy)
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sex as a teacher
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where our limits as readers are or should be, and how hyper-literalness harms our experience
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how sex and transformation relate to fairy tales
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is trans a universal condition?
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how sexual liberation allows us to be full human beings
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indie rock and zine culture as queer expression
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how queerness brings intensity, relief, and brilliance into living
SHOW NOTES are HERE.
XO
CH
Conner Habib 
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