Little Rose

Darren, who I knew a tiny bit from the pub, was always neat, wearing crisp white shirts, tucked into creaseless jeans, hair short back and sides.  One day, while saying goodbye, he casually asked if I fancied going out with him.  I must have screwed my face up, as he quickly added: “Please, I really really fancy you and I’d really like to get know you better.”  Really? My god!  So, of course, I agreed, feeling ashamed of my reflexive aloofness.  

In conversation: Nathan Lents, author of ‘The Sexual Evolution’

Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology at the John Jay College of criminal justice in New York. Yes, you read that right. John Jay was set up, according to its website, ‘in the mid-1950s in response to the increased complexity of administering and operating the New York City Police Department and relations between police and the community’ and is a ‘Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution’ which wants to ‘educat[e] traditionally underrepresented groups and [is] committed to increasing diversity in the workforce’. You don’t get more social justice warrior than that. The science department naturally has a bias towards forensics, toxicology, etc, though you can do a Cell and Molecular Biology Bachelor of Science.

Eli Erlick on ‘Before Gender’

Erlick wrote in the book in response to the current attack on trans people, particularly trans youth in the US and UK (which turned out to be a very strong theme of the conversation, surprise, surprise). He chose the stories according to how useful they would be in providing counterpoints to arguments presented by the gender critical movement. So, not at all cynical then.

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