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Writing gay things in my journal

Things mercury retrograde left behind

Mark yr calendars I’ll be playing bass in Dump Him on these dates

#dump him #Boyscout thriller #Britney spears #western mass #smith college punk #dyke rock #gay

latest comic i’ve made, this one’s about the first week of mercury retrograde, featuring a lot of pals that i went to see on my little vacation last week.

#comics #my work #mercury retrograde

Lil retrograde things

8/29/16

shoegaze-babe

By Yana Magdalinskaya [x]

i haven’t written anything in a while, but i started drawing again

#my work #comics #punk jokes

blankslate

today marks the official release of my full-length poetry collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS! it is available here

i’m extremely proud of the work in this book and so excited to share it with all of you! if you’ve enjoyed my work and are in the position to purchase it, i would be incredibly grateful—i’d also be overjoyed if you could share this with others and help spread the word. thank you all so much!

thesilentbarn

Vagabon live @ the Silent Barn (07/28/16) video by: Adam Khan

#music

thesparkmag-blog

Old Maybe are pushing themselves and their city of Philadelphia to find new sounds and new spaces.

By Alyssa Rorke

On their debut album "Oblio," Jazz Adam and her band push themselves and their city of Philadelphia to find new sounds and new spaces

wrote about Old Maybe (best band in philly rn?) for Spark Mag! download “What’s Keeping You,” the money actually goes to the artist!

#old maybe #spark mag #philadelphia #my work

mooncactus

if you are a young thing i have one piece of advice for you:

being enthusiastic and happy about things you love is more important than being apathetic and snide. you will go so much farther in life spending energy on and talking about something you love than wasting energy on only complaining about or making fun of something you don’t.

don’t focus on mocking others for being genuinely excited about something. focus on the things and people you love.

phillyzinefest

The Spiral Bookcase, a bookshop in Philly that carries zines!

The Spiral Bookcase, a bookshop in Philly that carries zines from the locals and beyond! Check out their blog about the Philly zine community and the events they have at their cozy shop!

http://thespiralbookcase.com/?p=2060

Photo of some of their zines after a zine reading they held on August 6th, 2016.

sufferingsappho-deactivated2017

Three main reasons why I don’t support white people using aave and why I never explain black slang to white people:

You’re almost always going to use it wrong. And even if you’re one of the down (that’s aave) white people who manages to use it mostly right, you are inadvertently giving other white people permission to use it, and they will get it wrong, and y’all literally never correct them, mostly because you don’t actually understand how it’s wrong.

We literally can’t have anything. The second a black person uses a word y’all don’t know in a vine or a song, y’all go through the same stages. First you say we’re destroying the english language, then you turn us into memes to mock us, then you start using the word like you came up with it when, as above, you don’t know what it means. Y’all are literally the “You made this? I made this.” comic.

Y’all make bank (that’s aave) off of our shit. The same shit that we get called ignorant and illiterate for creating, y’all get put on the Ellen show for repeating. You put it on pastel t-shirts and riot grrrl patches and suddenly it’s cute. And we never ever get credit unless it is to disparage us.

Honestly, I’ve given up on fighting this for the most part. Cause I know how y’all are and I know you’re never gonna change and it’s honestly not worth it for me to point out every time y’all do this. I would literally never have time to do anything else.

But trust me. I notice.

sufferingsappho-deactivated2017

White people should reblog this

saturnineaqua

this reminds me of a few weeks in High school, i had said to a white teacher that “white kids will copy us no matter what we do” and he didnt believe us, so after class , me the teacher and another friend of mine who was black, made up a word right then and there, and the two of us started saying it ALL THE TIME, in the halls , at lunch, etc.

the word was “funkadoink”. it was a replacement for “fucked”.

by the end of the week, white kids in our school were misusing it , and overusing it so much that our english teacher spilled the beans on a loudspeaker proclaiming “ i wish we never even came up with this!”.

it was incredibly terrible because the white kids, an NBPOC just USED it. they didnt ask us what it meant, why we said it. they would just hear us say it, talk shit about how stupid black people sounded and then OVER use it on the next school day.other black people would always point out that they never heard it before, it sounded weird, and ask us what it really meant.

but WE got in trouble when white kids started scratching it into glass of course.

and then at the end of it all, the white kids all claimed “funkadoink” was actually theirs, actually california “beach slang” and they had been saying it all along. it wasnt until a white middle aged man stood in front of them red faces and said “WE MADE IT UP, OMG we really ARE LEMMINGS!” that they felt stupid.

but it was literally like watching appropriation incubate!