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Andrew Sutherland
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Author, theatre-maker, PhD student, idk. Queer and Poz. Currently based on unceded Wurundjeri country in Naarm. Website: andrewsutherland.cargo.site
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big book October, much poetry
* Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa’ed Atshan * Whereas - Layli Long Soldier * Guapa - Saleem Haddad * An Army of Light - Bilal Hafda * Monument - Bonny Cassidy * Love Letters to Baba - N Mo’alla * Kontra - Eunice Andrada * *Fierceland - Omar Musa * Dream of the Divided Field - Yanyi * The Prodigal - Suneeta Peres Da Costa * Two Hundred Million Musketeers - Ender Başkan * *Terror Counter - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi * Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant * Dysphoria Mundi - Paul B. Preciado * Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba ed. Basma Ghalayini * Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism - Patricia A. Ybarra * *Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising - João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld * Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant * Treatise on the Whole-World - Édouard Glissant * rib/cage - Rosaly Puthucheary, ArunDitha, Zeha * Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom ed. Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler * *Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima * Raw Salt - Izzy Roberts-Orr * What Kept You? - Raaza Jamshed * *It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over - Anne De Marcken * *Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry ed. George Abraham & Noor Hindi * Starve and Immolate: the Politics of Human Weapons - Banu Bargu * Homesick - nor * Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks - Chrystal Ho * Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright * Boh Beh Zhao - Cheng Him * What God Took Your Legs Away - Wahid Al Mamun * Midnight Timetable - Bora Chung * Gold Digger - Lisa Collyer * The Scent of Flowers at Night - Leïla Slimani * Flat Exit - Broede Carmody * She Woke & Rose - Autumn Royal * Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa’ed Atshan * Whereas - Layli Long Soldier * Guapa - Saleem Haddad * An Army of Light - Bilal Hafda * Monument - Bonny Cassidy * Love Letters to Baba - N Mo’alla * Kontra - Eunice Andrada * *Fierceland - Omar Musa * Dream of the Divided Field - Yanyi * The Prodigal - Suneeta Peres Da Costa * Two Hundred Million Musketeers - Ender Başkan * *Terror Counter - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi * Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant * Dysphoria Mundi - Paul B. Preciado * Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba ed. Basma Ghalayini * Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism - Patricia A. Ybarra * *Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising - João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld * Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant * Treatise on the Whole-World - Édouard Glissant * rib/cage - Rosaly Puthucheary, ArunDitha, Zeha * Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom ed. Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler * *Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima * Raw Salt - Izzy Roberts-Orr * What Kept You? - Raaza Jamshed * *It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over - Anne De Marcken * *Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry ed. George Abraham & Noor Hindi * Starve and Immolate: the Politics of Human Weapons - Banu Bargu * Homesick - nor * Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks - Chrystal Ho * Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright * Boh Beh Zhao - Cheng Him * What God Took Your Legs Away - Wahid Al Mamun * Midnight Timetable - Bora Chung * Gold Digger - Lisa Collyer * The Scent of Flowers at Night - Leïla Slimani * Flat Exit - Broede Carmody * She Woke & Rose - Autumn Royal
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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September reads ~~
* *Trust Exercise - Susan Choi * The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - Shokoofeh Azar * The Farm - Jessica Mansour-Nahra * Yilkari: A desert suite - Nicholas Rothwell & Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson * Build Yourself a Boat - Camonghne Felix * *Israel/Palestine and the Queer International - Sarah Schulman * *Border Wisdom - Ahmad Almallah * Cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials - Reza Negarestani * The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence - Eyal Weizman * Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War - Ronak K. Kapadia * *Discipline - Randa Abdel-Fattah
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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August reads ~~
* Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Ruby Langford Ginibi * *Koolaids - Rabih Alameddine * Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson * *Music for Porn - Rob Halpern * *things in nature merely grow - Yiyun Li * Postcolonial Melancholia - Paul Gilroy * Mourning a Breast - Xi Xi * Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change - Eliza Steinbock * *A Lover’s Discourse - Xiaolu Guo * Questions of Travel - Michelle de Kretser * A Savage Turn - Luke Patterson * A Language of Limbs - Dylin Hardcastle * Locust Girl: a lovesong - Merlinda Bobis * An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures - Ann Cvetkovich * Decay ed. Ghassan Hage * The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong * Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life - Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
August 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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never on here but anyway here’s July reads ~~
* The House of Youssef - Yumna Kassab * Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form - Sianne Ngai * Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) ed. Richard Porter * Find Me at the Jaffa Gate - Micaela Sahhar * Ghosts of Myself - John Kinsella * Love Like This Isn’t Harmless - Bron Bateman * Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the Queer Politics of Drugs - Kane Race * Corpus - Jean-Luc Nancy * Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment - Rebecca Schneider * The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV - Kane Race * My Tender Matador - Pedro Lemebel * *Dengue Boy - Michel Nieva * Nock Loose - Patrick Marlborough * Time Remaining - James McCourt * *Held - Anne Michaels * On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy - Jacques Derrida * Our New Gods - Thomas Vowles * The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability - Elliot Evans * *The Palace on the Higher Hill - Karim Kattan * *I have brought you a severed hand - Ghayath Almadhoun * we are nowhere and it’s now. - Mikael Johani * The Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat * I Am A Human Being - Jackson Nieuwland * RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking ed. Ricky Varghese * The House of Youssef - Yumna Kassab * Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form - Sianne Ngai * Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) ed. Richard Porter * Find Me at the Jaffa Gate - Micaela Sahhar * Ghosts of Myself - John Kinsella * Love Like This Isn’t Harmless - Bron Bateman * Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the Queer Politics of Drugs - Kane Race * Corpus - Jean-Luc Nancy * Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment - Rebecca Schneider * The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV - Kane Race * My Tender Matador - Pedro Lemebel * *Dengue Boy - Michel Nieva * Nock Loose - Patrick Marlborough * Time Remaining - James McCourt * *Held - Anne Michaels * On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy - Jacques Derrida * Our New Gods - Thomas Vowles * The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability - Elliot Evans * *The Palace on the Higher Hill - Karim Kattan * *I have brought you a severed hand - Ghayath Almadhoun * we are nowhere and it’s now. - Mikael Johani * The Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat * I Am A Human Being - Jackson Nieuwland * RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking ed. Ricky Varghese
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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June reads
* I Want Everything - Dominic Amerena * *Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal - Mohammed El-Kurd * Dream of the Orchid Pavilion - Hongwei Bao * AIDS and the Distribution of Crises ed. Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, Nishant Shahani
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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May reads ~<<~
* Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories - Taeko Kono * *Sand-Catcher - Omar Khalifah * *Light Film - Sholto Buck * The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art Ed. TJ Bacon & Chelsea Coon * *Prisoner of Love - Jean Genet * *The Book of Disappearance - Ibtisam Azem * Little World - Josephine Rowe * Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy - Larissa Pham * The Last Syrian - Omar Youssef Souleimane * When the Sick Rule the World - Dodie Bellamy * Final Theory - Bonny Cassidy * Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation - Richard Seymour * Mettle - Anne-Marie Te Whiu * Joss: A History - Grace Yee * Red Sword - Bora Chung * Audition - Pip Adam
June 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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My second collection of poetry, Act Cute, is out with Fremantle Press on July 1.
May 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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April reads
* * *Ward Toward - Cindy Juyoung Ok * Outline - Rachel Cusk * Israel’s Dead Soul - Steven Salaita * Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom - Steven Salaita * From the Wreck - Jane Rawson * First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn * The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins ed. Zoë Bossiere & Erica Trabold * *Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine - Steven Salaita * The nearness of others: searching for tact and contact in the age of HIV - David Caron * Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry ed. Sara M Saleh & Zainab Syed with Manal Younus * Inara: Light of Utopia ed. Mx. Yaffa AS * *The Drop Off - David Stavanger * *Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution - Yasmin El-Rifae * Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora - Gayatri Gopinath * *We Do Not Part - Han Kang * Fragile Creatures - Khin Myint * Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence - Judith Butler * *The Nightmare Sequence - Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed * Quarterlife - Devika Rege * *Argento Series - Kevin Killian * The White Cockatoo Flowers - Ouyang Yu * Theophanies - Sarah Ghazal Ali * * *Ward Toward - Cindy Juyoung Ok * Outline - Rachel Cusk * Israel’s Dead Soul - Steven Salaita * Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom - Steven Salaita * From the Wreck - Jane Rawson * First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn * The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins ed. Zoë Bossiere & Erica Trabold * *Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine - Steven Salaita * The nearness of others: searching for tact and contact in the age of HIV - David Caron * Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry ed. Sara M Saleh & Zainab Syed with Manal Younus * Inara: Light of Utopia ed. Mx. Yaffa AS * *The Drop Off - David Stavanger * *Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution - Yasmin El-Rifae * Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora - Gayatri Gopinath * *We Do Not Part - Han Kang * Fragile Creatures - Khin Myint * Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence - Judith Butler * *The Nightmare Sequence - Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed * Quarterlife - Devika Rege * *Argento Series - Kevin Killian * The White Cockatoo Flowers - Ouyang Yu * Theophanies - Sarah Ghazal Ali
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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March reads
* Fog & Car - Eugene Lim * Washes, Prays - Noor Naga * Burden of Ashes - Justin Chin * *Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial - Saree Makdisi * Vague predictions and prophecies - Daisuke Shen * Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art - Guy Cools * The Waves - Virginia Woolf * Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile - Jane Blocker * In Inheritance of Drowning - Dorsia Smith Silva * The South - Tash Aw * Crybaby - Mabel Gibson * Romeo & Seahorse - Nikolaj Tange Lange * *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad * At Your Own Risk - Derek Jarman * *Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? - Judith Butler * Smiling in Slow Motion - Derek Jarman * If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose - Refaat Alareer * In the Printed Version of Heaven - Sholto Buck * Vixen - Hoa Pham * *Toward Eternity - Anton Hur * Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love - Han Suyin * The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance - Azza El Hassan * *Past & Parallel Lives - Kaya Ortiz * Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems - James Baldwin * Love in the New Millennium - Can Xue * Fog & Car - Eugene Lim * Washes, Prays - Noor Naga * Burden of Ashes - Justin Chin * *Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial - Saree Makdisi * Vague predictions and prophecies - Daisuke Shen * Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art - Guy Cools * The Waves - Virginia Woolf * Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile - Jane Blocker * In Inheritance of Drowning - Dorsia Smith Silva * The South - Tash Aw * Crybaby - Mabel Gibson * Romeo & Seahorse - Nikolaj Tange Lange * *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad * At Your Own Risk - Derek Jarman * *Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? - Judith Butler * Smiling in Slow Motion - Derek Jarman * If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose - Refaat Alareer * In the Printed Version of Heaven - Sholto Buck * Vixen - Hoa Pham * *Toward Eternity - Anton Hur * Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love - Han Suyin * The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance - Azza El Hassan * *Past & Parallel Lives - Kaya Ortiz * Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems - James Baldwin * Love in the New Millennium - Can Xue
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Received an advance copy of my second collection today. It is out July 1 with Fremantle Press ~~
A photograph of me, a white person with dark purple hair, holding a copy of my book. The cover is purple and blue, with an illustration of a swan, a flower, and in bold white font the title ACT CUTE.
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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March 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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good day to be a zucchini flower
An image of a yellow zucchini flower potted among green leaves An image of three yellow zucchini flowers potted among green leaves
March 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I read a lot in February, probs the anxiety
A notes app list of books I read in February * Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk * Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber * Living On Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina * *Rat Bohemia - Sarah Schulman * *We Speak of Flowers - Eileen Chong * Fully Sikh - Sukhjit Kaur Kalsa * The Proposal - Bae Myung-Hoon * Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance - Joseph Roach * Barefoot Doctor - Can Xue * Imperfect Solidarities - Aruna D’Souza * The Tower of Love - Rachilde * Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomenon of Theatre - Alice Rayner * *The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability - Jasbir K. Puar * Blackouts - Justin Torres * Do Everything in the Dark - Gary Indiana * God Dies by the Nile / Searching / The Circling Song - Nawal El Saadawi * Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine - Ed. Mahdi Sabbagh * *Was - Geoff Ryman * Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film - Jalal Toufic * Plains of Promise - Alexis Wright * Ghost Image - Hervé Guibert * Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant * Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures - Mark Fisher * bury it - Sam Sax * The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka * General Idea: Imagevirus - Gregg Bordowitz * The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 - Gregg Bordowitz * How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo * The Hum Hearers - Shey Marque A notes app list of books I read in February * Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk * Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber * Living On Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina * *Rat Bohemia - Sarah Schulman * *We Speak of Flowers - Eileen Chong * Fully Sikh - Sukhjit Kaur Kalsa * The Proposal - Bae Myung-Hoon * Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance - Joseph Roach * Barefoot Doctor - Can Xue * Imperfect Solidarities - Aruna D’Souza * The Tower of Love - Rachilde * Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomenon of Theatre - Alice Rayner * *The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability - Jasbir K. Puar * Blackouts - Justin Torres * Do Everything in the Dark - Gary Indiana * God Dies by the Nile / Searching / The Circling Song - Nawal El Saadawi * Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine - Ed. Mahdi Sabbagh * *Was - Geoff Ryman * Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film - Jalal Toufic * Plains of Promise - Alexis Wright * Ghost Image - Hervé Guibert * Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant * Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures - Mark Fisher * bury it - Sam Sax * The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka * General Idea: Imagevirus - Gregg Bordowitz * The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 - Gregg Bordowitz * How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo * The Hum Hearers - Shey Marque
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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no worries king!! what a treat to be acknowledged and appreciated!!
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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January reads ~~
February 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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You mean this guy!!
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Queers moving house
January 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I don’t really know how I want to interact with this platform yet or if I will much. However as a placeholder here is me with my first book published 2022. It is very good. My second is coming out in July this year and I guess I will post about it here.
January 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM