Race Matters / Desire Made From Corpses: The Politics of Twink

29.06.25
Ethan and Dayvid stand in the fbi music library, they are serving face looking strong but fluid
Aired on 29.06.25, 10:00am

What does it mean that desire, even queer desire, is built on dead bodies? What happens when we realise that our desires, even our most intimate, erotic ones, may be rooted in specific, traceable violence and death?

Wiradjuri baddie and alleged tender queer Ethan Lyons on all things TWINK. The desire, the violence, the whiteness of it all. Joined by his dear friend David Soriano, on discerning the colonial parasite, the reproduction of racist harm in gay communities, non western queerness and how we can live truly as queer people, embracing decolonial practices.

This epsiode references the work if Driftpile Ccree Nation writer Billy Ray Belcourt and the work of queer thinker Martin F. Manalansan, Global Divas.

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