Sister sister, where did we go wrong? / Tell me what the fuck we're doing here / Why are all the boys acting strange? / We've got to show them we're worse than queer!

I've done fanzines since fifteen. I do a zine called slander, once slant. I write for Punk Planet as a columnist, and the occasional article for Maximumrocknroll, plus zine reviews and the news. I'd like to freelance more often but I don't seem to have the time, but ask anyway. I also write academic, uh, stuff.

Because cultural critique is a part of my everyday life as an academic, this is what my journal consists of (mostly). This is me, keeping my critical tongue sharp and making my brain go. This is not me laying myself out to you, like it's some kind of confession.

Ask me why and I'll quote this, what French poststructuralist theorist Michel Foucault once said:

"Your question is: why am I so interested in politics? But if I were to answer you very simply, I would say this: Why shouldn't I be interested? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence.... The essence of our life consists, after all, in the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves."