Archive - Napkin Manifestos

Modernity’s Last Act

Sex (and) Work in the Age of Human Sacrifice

Jun 19 •

Alison Rose Reed

May 2025

From the Annals of the Comic Strip Club

Uncensored and Unhinged

May 15

April 2025

Welcome to the Comic Strip Club

Weird Humor for Morbid Times

Apr 27 •

Alison Rose Reed

March 2025

A Phantom Poem on Carceral Psychology Under Trump

Mar 26

February 2025

In Memory of Aaron Bushnell

June 30, 1998 – February 25, 2024

Feb 26 •

Alison Rose Reed

An Open Letter to My Sexist Clients

And a Poetic Teaser for a New Essay Series, "The Strip Club is a Haunted House"

Feb 22

January 2025

To Build a Home

On Unlikely Intimacies in the Apocalypse

Jan 12

December 2024

An Election Postmortem with Raechel Anne Jolie

Plus a Brief Birthday Reflection

Dec 24, 2024

November 2024

I’m a Stripper; Of Course I’m Not Surprised by Trump 2.0

Money Talks and Money Feels at the Club

Nov 20, 2024

October 2024

A Gallery of Glinting Teeth

Part II of “The Cliff: Notes on Sex, Work, and Shoes”

Oct 29, 2024

The Cliff: Notes on Sex, Work, and Shoes

Oct 11, 2024

September 2024

The Boundless Capacity of the Heart to Break

From Gaza to the Golden Gulag

Sep 26, 2024 •

Alison Rose Reed

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