(It’s 2026, but I’m catching up on 2025 stuff after experiencing the hallucinatory magic of the Réveillon in Rio de Janiero 🇧🇷)
Back in September, I had a great talk with Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project Substack Live. We discussed the launch of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, staying creative and engaged under the reactionary thrall we are living through, and other themes.
A bite from the convo about drift in the online environment discussed in the book:
I don’t remember asking for this digital world. And whether you’re from my generation–like Gen X–or from another generation, we’re all figuring it out as we go along. But it’s good to note the drift, the shift, in online culture is much more towards a more constrained, censored, and corporatized environment compared to what it was when there was those early days of promise.”
(Also the transcript rendered every time one of us said “kept boy” as “cat boy” and just to say I’m 100% on board ₍^. .^₎⟆
Many thanks to Jerry for going live with me.