Previously in this series.   Cher On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed Self-Help, Lorrie Moore “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer The Drag King Book, J. Jack Halberstam Selfie, Kim Kardashian Emma, Jane Austen   Dionne Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière Wuthering Heights, Emily…

Last night, I saw another campy gladiator movie. There was a real missed opportunity inasmuch as no character ever uttered the line "Sometimes, I really gladi-hate you." Last night, I had a dream, and in my dream I wrote a teen comedy set in a gladiatorial school. There was a surly North African gladiator one day away from freedom, a Spaniard with a murdered family, a one-handed Celt with something to prove, a female…