7 things you dont know about Larry Lyons

Mr. Larry Lyons gives it to you.

7. His first grade teacher Mrs. Presch went to her grave believing he would be the next Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His mother agrees.

6. He has a crush on the recently deceased newsman Ed Bradley.

5. He believes that life is a fable and that the Devil is a fiction invented to save people the trouble of dealing with the fact that they themselves create the energies that they encounter in the universe. At the end of the day, isn't it much easier to believe that there's some naughty beast dwelling in the belly of the earth that's making you do bad things?

4. He wants to start a mentoring program for queer youth of color.

3. He (only half-jokingly) made the following vow this weekend: "My sex will hereby serve as a reward for liberal and liberatory politics. Republicans are henceforth banned from the premises." In short, he refuses to bed anyone with fucked up politics, official party affiliation notwithstanding.

2. He does not celebrate New Year's or Valentine's Day.

1. When he talks about his work on "white supremacy", he's not talking about self-identified white sepratists and white nationalists (as in the KKK). Rather, the work focusses on the way that the Western world strategically privileges whiteness by rendering it the invisible -- positioning it as the default human identity rather than as a social construction. Importantly, white supremacy is seldom conspiratorial. Instead, it is embedded in the cultural logic and class structure of America in ways that allow it to perpetuate the dominion of rich white men without much interrogation.