The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia uses queer and kinky sex to explore colonialism. The problem is that many of the described sex acts are non-consensual and thus abuse. Instead of contending with this, the book romanticizes them as overcoming broader societal power structures by violating the boundaries of individuals.

Rachel Cusk’s Parade has recently thrown my mind into turmoil a few times. Its prose can be treacherous, like a ragged mountain. But when it becomes lucid to me, it stabs. It has been quite some time since I’ve felt the need to make excerpts from a book as not to lose these nuggets. One of them prompted me to write this post. Let me share it with you: You’re white and you’re male and things just fall into your lap, and I’m not saying that’s your fault.

For a while I head loose thoughts swriling around about how my outlook on teaching has changed and possibly, I’ve grabbed them and pinned them down into prose.

On the train, I wrote a quick piece about why I fail to write more, how distraction and perfectionsim play a role.

Im Sommersemester 2020 hatte ich die Chance als Tutoren Studierenden durch eine Mathevorlesung zu helfen. Das habe ich gelernt.