'publisher="Semiotext(e)"' in OBA Collectie

This title offers a scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality. Written in the wake of May 1968 and Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipu...

Salé, een plaats in de buurt van Rabat, midden jaren tachtig. Een puber rent. Hij is op weg naar zijn droom: regisseur worden. En hij is op weg naar zijn Egyptische ster, Souad Hosni. Hij rent weg, weg uit de buurt die hij lief heeft en haat tegelijker...

Artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was an important figure in the downtown New York art scene. His art was preoccupied with sex, death, violence, and the limitations of language. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, Wojnarowicz be...

"I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. ... I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartmen...

Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary (1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern Art are cropped, Reagan could pass for a butch lez fr...

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poe...

Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate "monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French w...

McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.

O.a. een gesprek met een 15-jarige jongen die sexuele contacten met oudere mannen heeft, en een gesprek tussen David Thorstad (NAMBLA) en Guy Hocquenghem.