ESSAY text by PAUL B. PRECIADO artwork by ZOE LEONARD spanish writer, philosopher, and curator paul b. preciado is one of the most important voices for queer theory and identity politics. Every year at the beginning of September, a kindly cosmic hand puts a mute on the sun and pushes a wave of cold wind that comes from the northern fjords to strike the city and carry away at least some small portion of the air that suffocates us. September is a good month. It’s the moment when the new books, like puppies born in early sum- mer, venture out for the first time to play in the public squares, with their soft-padded paws and glistening backs. The bookshops fill up with these foreign bodies. Some of them will make it into houses, find their place in book- cases, stretch themselves out on bedside tables, and even slip between unfamiliar…