Clothes are a social construct, we did just fine naked until the cisheteronormative oppressors probably saw a business opportunity in selling us the idea of naked humiliation, and then the clothes to alleviate it. I say let the wangs hang. #FreeTheWangs
I think until the day we can view a bunch of priapic goodfellows fooling around with naked abandon on the village green yet arousing no greater moral vacillations than say, an impromptu bowls match in its place would, we will never be truly free.#FreeTheWangs
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
Clothes are a social construct, we did just fine naked until the cisheteronormative oppressors probably saw a business opportunity in selling us the idea of naked humiliation, and then the clothes to alleviate it. I say let the wangs hang. #FreeTheWangs
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