David Davis
upcoming posts, plus a new series
I woke up in an ugly mood because it’s October 7, 2024, and because I’m disturbed by the climate-driven changes in my local weather patterns, and because I’m likely dropping from a scarification I had done on Saturday. I want to write about what’s upcoming for this newsletter—you know, gin up some anticipation for all 4,336 of you—but how can I, with all this1?
Well, I can, and so I do, I suppose. I won’t attempt to pass off what I do here as more than it is, but what it is may be of use to some of you, if not as edification then at least as distraction. It’s both for me. So, what’s upcoming:
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Upcoming topics include: gender policies at play and sex parties; supermasochist Bob Flanagan; art patronage; reviews of sadomasochist art; and another body scan, which has become a series of sorts.
New series alert! I’ve been wanting to write about slurs for a long time now. From who can reclaim what, to the so-called resurgence of the r-word, to the humbling consented to by those who refuse to use a slur that does not apply to them, there’s a lot to think about here, especially regarding the unsaid.
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My sibling lives in the Midwest but regularly visits their partner in Florida, so they’re one of my on-the-ground contacts for climate collapse as it unfolds in those parts of the country. Today, they only just made it out of the Sunshine State ahead of Milton, which is due to hit on Wednesday and will likely be a Category 4, if not worse. Ever since 2018, when the Camp Fire—California’s deadliest wildfire—took out the town down the road from ours, the future has become our most consistent topic of conversation. While my sibling and I tend to catastrophize, there is little to indicate that our pessimism is unrealistic. If something doesn’t change, we’re scheduled to soar past the 2015 Paris Accord’s agreed-upon goal of keeping the rise in global surface temperature below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels, conditions which exacerbate and are accelerated by the immiseration of the world order, from the climate refugees of Hurricane Helene wading through toxic mud to the 25 million Sudanese suffering from “severe hunger” to the likely hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered over the course of the genocide that began a year ago today.