[3] While working as an editor at n+1, Glazek proposed the idea of commemorating and archiving gay and bisexual men and women from his alma mater who lost their lives due to the AIDS crisis.
Citing the enormous number of unrecorded crimes that take place in the country's prison system, the $200+ billion annual bill to pay for correctional facilities, and the various forms of racism that disadvantage people of color (such as the harrowing effects and media spectacle of the crack epidemic, recidivism, and strict gun and drug control laws that help fuel a black market), the prison-industrial-complex is a reinforcing site of corruption.
[9] Early critics from the medical community were concerned about the efficacy and cost of the drug and accused the United States government of colluding with Gilead at the expense of public health.
Weinstein has been met with scorn by health care advocates and the LGBTQ community for his moral conservatism as he opposes PrEP, the H.I.V.-prevention pill, which he believes will cause a “public-health catastrophe” by triggering a dangerous increase in risky sex and has campaigned to make condoms mandatory in adult films.
[11] In 2018, Glazek wrote and narrated a script titled, Obama Baroque and UBI: The Straight Truvada, as part of a trilogy of videos by DIS reflecting on the financial crisis and universal basic income.
[12] While an editor at n+1, Glazek and Elizabeth Gumport teamed up with authors like Helen DeWitt and Chris Kraus to lead discussions groups for emerging writers and artists living in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Deflationary realism is marked for its “absurdist bleakness” and “alienating nihilism” as evinced in contemporary writers like Dennis Cooper, Rachel Cusk, David Foster Wallace, and Jackie Ess.