by Jeff Stookey | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is not unusual for young military men to form intense emotional relationships, perhaps at times sexual. Some combination of youth, fear, camaraderie, lack of contact with women, separation from familiar environs, male bonding, and young male hormones might play...
by Jeff Stookey | Jun 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
This month is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, considered the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. I didn’t hear about the Stonewall riots until years after it happened. But my partner, who was in the military at that time, was subscribing to...
by Jeff Stookey | May 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
With the UN report on the danger of losing one million species to extinction within our lifetime and continued reports on the growing perils of systemic global climate disruption, we must confront the fact of human overpopulation. The World Population Prospects: The...
by Jeff Stookey | Apr 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
book cover: The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, 1933, mixes politics and horror. My friend J D Chandler is writing a serialized werewolf story inspired by The Werewolf of Paris (by Guy Endore, 1933) but Chandler’s is set in Portland and titled, appropriately,...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Originally, I imagined writing this blog about the flap over Gillette’s controversial #MeToo commercial alongside a discussion of beauty standards and what’s being called “beauty-standard denialism.” First, the Gillette ad has been both praised and damned. From the...
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