strong and gentle

Tan, 28, they/them, queer

[beardedmrbean]

[flintyfae]

zine i made about being a boring queer!

nothing more natural than changing and evolving and learning and discovering things about yourself.

happy pride from this fat trans butch

[beansricebees]

-Cleve Jones

[itsoverfeeling]

my humble recommended reading for pride is when we rise by cleve jones. he does an amazing job of covering his life alongside his activist work. most significantly it covers his time in san francisco starting from the 70s and all the tragedies and joys and pains and moments of his community. I cried my ass off but I also laughed with him at a lot of moments. he did a beautiful job telling the stories of the people he knew and met over his life and I'm glad I got a chance to read it all

[mina-logan]

They are 2 cool 4 me

Bonus with no text:

[my-dailydreams]

[gothish]

[thisfeebleheart]

patient needs neck kisses to survive

[wingsseni]

irina and ilyusha 🤍

[honeydewdrops333]

”you think of me as obscene, but to myself, i simply am”

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[xrd]

[wongkrwai]

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

[setulose]

This is a staunchly pro-bug zone. I may have contentious relationships with the ones that enjoy eating me or my food but that's life baby. The great web...

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[heartsl0b]

"Kitchen Cabinet": Your grandma's old cracked casserole dish. The bumpy linoleum tiles under your feet when you hear the stove click on. The things you love seem to glow with a special, yellow light.

[behnmi]

butches, no more trying to be cool in 2026 please. i love your beat up car and your palpable excitement when you find authentic carpenter pants at the thrift. i love your goofy warm smile when i make extra coffee for you to steal. i love your body wash and your favourite dinner and your stuttering over your words and your big emotions.

please let me slip through the nonchalance and find you where you’re softest <3