BAEDAN no.2 - A Queer Journal of Heresy

With a new subtitle (heresy rather than nihilism), artwork throughout by Harry Clark, continuing references to Guy Hocquenghem and an on-going appreciation of hostility, this project continues to inspire. Pieces included are "Against the Gendered Nightmare", "Unlike the God of Human Error", "the Anti-Chamber", and "Volutions." If the first issue of Baedan was a knife thrust wildly in the dark, the second is an effort to examine our enemies in a new light; enemies who bear scars yet endure. In a sense, this issue follows through our initial attack and pushes beyond our own horrors at the consequences of words. We write at a time when everything which seemed slightly possible two years ago has borne its rotten fruit; when queer recuperation has become more powerful and accepted than ever, while the fetish for technology has reached an unprecedented frenzy; when so many efforts at subversion languish under the tyranny of cybernetic identity and aesthetics (even our own etymologies have