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The Eurabian Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine Fragility in France

“I talk in the book about the special kind of sado-masochism it takes to spend six years reading alarmist literature that imagines people like me to be a genetic nightmare and cultural failure. Yet I find the complexes and psychoses that afflict white supremacists as they contemplate Eurabians both interesting and funny, if I can use that word about something so serious. You never know when porn studies methodology will come in handy, but it does again and again: literature that imagines the Great Replacement can most easily be likened to a snuff film, in which erotic pleasure occurs at the death of the Other. This is why I talk in the book about the erotics of ethnic horror, a literary genre that best fits Great Replacement literature.” Description Interview and excerpt 

The New York Times and 7 October Sexual Assaults

“The question has never been whether individual acts of sexual assault may have occurred  on October 7.  The central issue is whether the New York Times presented solid evidence that Hamas deliberately and systematically deployed sexual violence as a weapon. And to this day, neither the Times nor any other institution has presented compelling proof to back that explosive assertion.” Full email from The Intercept, 15 March 2024: Over the last few weeks, The Intercept has exposed massive holes in the New York Times’s marquee front-page exposé on alleged sexual violence committed  on October 7. Instead of addressing the gaping flaws in the story and issuing a correction, the Times has launched an internal “witch hunt” targeting employees based on their national origin, ethnicity, and race to track down anyone who may have talked to The Intercept about the story, according to the union that represents the Times newsroom employees. The Intercept is continuing to inve...

MENA: Intimate Partner Violence

According to  the World Economic Fortum’s  Global Gender Gap Report 2020