Bent Zine #21 Gentry McShane
Bent Zine #21 Gentry McShane
Interview by Gentry McShane
“You can hide the smoke, but what you go’ do with the fire?”
—Black Proverb from Shuckin and Jivin: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans
For What Tomorrow...A Dialogue: Jacques Derrida & Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004)
“E.R.: And you cite the famous story of the hedgehogs that Freud took from Schopenhauer. Some porcupines give up cuddling each other to ward of the cold: they hurt each other with their quills. Obliged one winter day to huddle together, they end up finding a mean distance between attraction and repulsion, friendship, and hostility.”
An Image that Moves Me
Commercial Break
Monkey Jar
In a quake of self-possession,
I trotted out with my monkey jar
to see what ugliness I could capture
And ate all my abjectness
Sawed through the belly of it
and dipped my hands through the mess of that well-like hole
to pull ropes and ropes of blood
I took the sickest parts of myself,
broke free in a naked elysium of stupidity and
became the most marvelous monkey that I could imagine.
NSFW
Gentry McShane is a Filmmaker, Actor and Writer . He is a self described Meme Dealer, an unapologetically gay anti-fascist and a proud service industry worker whose campy experimental films have screened at queer and porn film festivals internationally. He has lived all over the US but his most consistent home has been the bay area since 2005. He is currently a contributing writer for brokeassstuart.com, hosts a podcast about LGBTQ cinema called ‘Flames on Film’ and admins a meme account @Catpowerman5k( formerly catpowerman5000) . He stans the films of John Waters, the dystopian writing of Octavia Butler, the musical stylings of Dolly Parton, Bikini Kill and the legendary Ms. Britney Spears to name a few. He currently resides in San Francisco.
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So tell me how BENT you are…
Virus or Bacteria?
Bacteria
Preferred Pronoun?
Any/All/Y’All
What Periodic Table Element are you?
CU Copper
Favorite Object?
Picture Frames/photo albums
What shape are you?
Pentagon
Give us a texture.
Prickly
Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc.
Communist in the streets, Anarchist in the sheets
Favorite person of Color that you disagree with?
Raven Symone
What sound are you?
bonfire
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot?
who doesnt love MJ, bubbles and balloons?
What’s the last thing you broke?
my own heart with false assumptions most likely
Last person you kissed?
good question, I never got a name
Best thing about men’s right activists?
im usually taller than them
Do you meditate?
yes,in fact i just did to figuure out how to answer this
Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare?
just a white hole sir
Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS: Ederacinism, let it rip bruh
Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist
I agree that in several ways, Men are scum and I agree on creating radically exclusive spaces for oppressed people to conspire in so it really doesn't bother me to NOT be invited to another potluck / free screening of Born in Flames.
Personally though, The L(esbian) of the lgbt alphabet has always resonated with me in terms of direct action, poetry / art as activism, and sex/kink fluidity being of heavy focus. The G(ay) experience I had sold to me in youth was one of XY magazine, Abercrombie, puca shells, six pack abs and bleached hair. I know plenty of lesbians who stan tom of finland and john waters so i dont feel that my gravitating towards more lesbian interests is so unusual but I wish there were more gay men who were genuinely interested in them.
I wanna add that Im really relieved to see so many trans and gender non conforming younger people stand up to TERFs and other haters as well as showing us that these culturally queer concepts are in fact not gender exclusive.
Favorite Mythological Character?
Helen of Troy
What type of Cancer are you?
Lindsay Lohan throwing a party in Mykonos bitch
Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption?
redeem me daddy
Who do you actually hate?
Britney Spears’s Dad
Best regrettable purchase this month?
$6 cup of OJ
Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian…
likes to drop hints instead of just saying it
Your favorite body of water.
The bay
What’s the most middle class thing you’ve done this week?
watched miss doubtfire last friday
I’m only politically correct when…
i need money
What’s your favorite scar on your body?
putbull bite on my nose
Last time you cried tears of joy.
watching ms doubtfire last friday
Your most noble trait.
i apologize and admit when i fuck up
I know the taste of...cancellation
