Get in, gurl, we're reading poetry at your unfriendly neighborhood leather bar.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

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Learn more about Tom of Finland, the artist name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen who signed his erotic work "Tom."

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Read Heather McHugh's "The Amenities" (care warning: sexual assault)

Read sam sax's "On PrEP or on Prayer [“when i say pre-exposure prophylaxis”]

Read Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose"

Read Diane Wakoski's "Uneasy Rider"

Here's an excerpt from Mark Bibbins's 13th Balloon

Read this poem by Tyehimba Jess

Check out Robin Coste Lewis's page on The Elders Project here. TEP captures and celebrates untold and underrepresented stories of activists, storytellers, and community builders who have witnessed and shaped great change in American public life.

Read this consideration/critique of Cruising

Read this interview of Mary Jo Bang.

Stephen King addresses rumors about Musk insults here.

Read this great review of Bianca Stone's fabulous The Mobius Strip Club of Grief.

If you haven't seen the 20th anniversary edition of Richard Siken's Crush, check it out here.

Check out Nighboat's Rob Halpern's Music for Porn

Read Jenny Johnson's essay "Butch Blow Job" in Bomb.

We're talking resistance, joy, and queer communities with Brenda Shaughnessy!

Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.

Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

NOTES:

Click here for Brenda’s Queer Resistance Playlist 2025 (Spotify).

Check out Brenda's poem "Panopticon" from Interior with Sudden Joy.

Visit Brenda Shaughnessy’s website . And hear her read from her newest book, Tanya here.

Read more about UC Santa Cruz closing the Feminist Studies Dept here.

Read more about Maria Ressa

For more about Roland Barthes’s contribution to literary criticism, read here.

While dated, here’s a list of creative writing programs that are LGBTQ+ friendly.

Read more about Bettina Aptheker

Read more about Donna J. Haraway

Read on for more about the clubs Brenda mentions: Meow Mix, Clit Club, Henrietta Hudson (still open!), Pandora's Box, and more.

Read more about Angela Davis's work here.

For more about Wendy Brown, read her Guggenheim citation here.

You can learn more about Allan Bérubé here.

Learn more about the incredible Urvashi Vaid here.

Watch/listen to Cécile McLorin Salvant's "Until" here.

Read more about Kate Clinton on her website here.

For more about Teresa de Lauretis, click here.