Simon van Saarloos
Biographic Data
| ID | 6915645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon van Saarloos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | van Saarloos |
| SIGNATURE | VAN SAARLOOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berkeley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
As if non-binary exists. A post-op diary and a despair-triggered timeline
A recent scene at CrossFit. The coach prompted participating athletes to grab ‘15 kilo for men and 10 for the ladies, and’ he laughed, ‘12.5 if you are non-binary.’ Feeling addressed and also being a bratty jock, I protested by asking why the coach assumed the non-binary weight would be in-between the men’s and women’s prescription, why not outrun it? Arrogantly, I grabbed a 17.5 kilo dumbbell. The initial standard was of course still there: even…
Frivolous like Fashion
Paranoia plagues disability like it haunts transness. What if disability and trans do not have to be real and authentic, but instead can exist because of their cool aesthetics? The author desires a world in which using aids, spaces, and tools associated with disability is considered just as dangerously contagious as transitioning
Body, genre, apparatus
Dreamdead Surrender
Blow your mind! Shards hailing, on superfluous violence to stop surviving
David Buckel set himself on fire to publicly stage the horrors of climate change, Delores “Lolita” Lebrón performed a sensational act in the US congress hall, hailing bullets while calling out: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!When do we recognize violence as violence? When is the absence of a counter-attack a form of compliance? Do the desires of activists need an expression of violence to establish an ‘otherwise’ that’s carefully repressed? In “Blow you…
Blow your mind! Shards hailing, on superfluous violence to stop surviving
David Buckel set himself on fire to publicly stage the horrors of climate change, Delores “Lolita” Lebrón performed a sensational act in the US congress hall, hailing bullets while calling out: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!When do we recognize violence as violence? When is the absence of a counter-attack a form of compliance? Do the desires of activists need an expression of violence to establish an ‘otherwise’ that’s carefully repressed? In “Blow you…
Dreamdead Surrender
Body, genre, apparatus
Frivolous like Fashion
Paranoia plagues disability like it haunts transness. What if disability and trans do not have to be real and authentic, but instead can exist because of their cool aesthetics? The author desires a world in which using aids, spaces, and tools associated with disability is considered just as dangerously contagious as transitioning
As if non-binary exists. A post-op diary and a despair-triggered timeline
A recent scene at CrossFit. The coach prompted participating athletes to grab ‘15 kilo for men and 10 for the ladies, and’ he laughed, ‘12.5 if you are non-binary.’ Feeling addressed and also being a bratty jock, I protested by asking why the coach assumed the non-binary weight would be in-between the men’s and women’s prescription, why not outrun it? Arrogantly, I grabbed a 17.5 kilo dumbbell. The initial standard was of course still there: even…
History (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Exposition (narrative) (1 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (1 works) · Feature (linguistics) (1 works)