May 1st: Mairead’s Something

Today the countdown begins!  31 days until Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something is officially launched. Mairead’s Something:  A Finished History Thesis I thought I’d start off May Something with something from my lovely sister, Mairead, who has sat through multiple emails, drafts, and phone calls while I worked my way through writing this book. …

Idea No. 24: Gay Sex was the Voldemort of the Renaissance

Guest Blogger: Mairead Hynes So you have to feel kinda bad for Renaissance theologians.  They really, really wanted to tell people that they shouldn’t have gay sex– but they really, really wanted to do it without actually saying “don’t have gay sex.”  So they twisted themselves into all kinds of funky rhetorical shapes– they told …