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‎Ideas: Indigenous Sexuality and Gender on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Ideas, Ep Indigenous Sexuality and Gender - Nov 21, 2022

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🌈 In honor of #NationalComingOutDay (#NCOD), we partnered with Archie Comics to envision #ABetterUniverse! 🌈

In this world, everyone is met with love and support when they choose to disclose their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. If you’re coming out today, we hope that you’re acknowledged and celebrated like those featured here in the Archie Comic Universe. 

If you’re not, click here for local and national resources who can support you:  itgetsbetter.org/abetteruniverse 

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I’m like Coco today… Super sleepy and tired. #monday #bunnies #cutebunnies #sleepy

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Today Queer as Fiction dives deep into the past as we discuss the Mesopotamian poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Join us for a riveting discussion featuring ancient gods, axe-based sexual metaphors and research findings so good they make you take your clothes off.

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Alan Turing unveiled as the face of the new £50 note

Gay Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing will be the face of the new £50 note, the Bank of England announced today (July 15).

Gay mathematician, scientist, and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing has just been announced as the new face of the British £50 note!

Turing was instrumental in the foundation of computer science, and the breaking of the German Enigma code during WII. He was prosecuted by the state for his sexuality, and ultimately driven to suicide at age 41, in 1954. In 2009 he received an apology from the British government, and in 2013, he was formally pardoned.

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true talent

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Hey, this is the pet show at Busch gardens! Hella fun and cute to watch in person too.

[makingqueerhistory]

Hi guys! I just listened to your episode on Josephine Baker and Marsha P. Johnson. We've just done our own episode on Marsha, so I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on her, especially about the importance of her direct action in terms of caring for her community. I noticed in the episode that you mentioned Marsha would go by her birth name and ask people to use he/him pronouns for her. (1/2)

I couldn’t find this mentioned in the sources you linked, so I was wondering if you had another source for this? It’s not something I came across in my research so I’m keen to read more. (2/2) 

Yes totally! This was my second or third article, so sorry if my memory is a little fuzzy but I believe it was in the book “Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution”, I generally try not to include too many sources that require payment to see them, so I probably forgot I mentioned something that only is mentioned in that source! Sorry about that, I will add it to the show notes! But if you want a source without a financial barrier, I think there is an interview with her discussing it floating around, but I can’t remember more than that, it has been a long time since I read it/heard it. There is also a mention of it on her Wikipedia page so they might have some additional sources there for your research. Good luck!

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I know it’s a little while since you guys answered this question, but I’m researching an episode on Stonewall so I’ve been thinking about it again. I’ve just finished re-reading David Carter’s Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution and found no mention of Marsha going by her birth name or male pronouns. It’s also not mentioned on her Wikipedia article (perhaps it’s been edited since you linked it?). Is there any chance you can remember any more details about the interview where you heard this? Since there’s so much debate surrounding the nuances of trans identity and specifically about Marsha’s identity in relation to the involvement of trans people at Stonewall I think it’s important to follow up sources on this.

Thanks for your help!

-Alice

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Just to follow up on this post – we’ve had a chat with Laura at @makingqueerhistory about this, and we’re now able to clarify some things.

Neither of us have been able to find a source which says that Marsha ever asked people to use her birth name, or to refer to her with he/him pronouns. The source of the confusion was a misremembering of this quote from David Carter’s Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution (p.66-7):

“But Robert Heide recalls another side to the childlike Marsha, who could be both helpless and charming. He sometimes saw a demon emerge, especially when Marsha was in his male persona as Malcolm. “I think we all have that to some degree, but apparently in Malcolm/Marsha’s case there was this real duality and it wold take hold. There was a schizophrenic personality at work, for Malcolm Michaels could be a very nasty, vicious man, looking for fights. You could say hello to him and if he was Malcolm that day, he might not even recognize you or you might be in trouble or a fight might ensue.” Heide’s experience of this side of Malcolm is borne out by Randy Wicker, who took Marsha in as a roommate decades later. While Marsha was generally an ideal living companion, on one occasion she wrecked Randy’s residence. A 1979 Voice article also reported that Marsha’s “plumed saintliness” was “volatile” and quoted a Christopher Street shop manager who described her as a “bully under that soft sweet manner” and listed a roster of gay bars from which she had been banned.”

There are a few things to note about this quote. Firstly, this passage uses very ableist language when talking about aspects of Marsha’s behaviour which are likely linked to mental illness. Marsha was mentally ill throughout her life, and this is something that I do regret not being able to talk about in much depth in our podcast - I made the decision to focus on other aspects of Marsha’s life, such as her gender identity and her activism. There’s no one simple source of information on this topic, but if that is something you’d like to know more about I recommend you have a look at our list of sources on Marsha.

Secondly, with only this information to work from, and no comments from Marsha herself, we cannot pass judgement on how this information ties in with Marsha’s gender identity. We don’t know whether this idea that she had a “male persona” is something she understood about herself, or if it was an explanation imposed on her behaviour by Robert Heide.

Lastly, this passage does not refer to Marsha asking for anyone to use he/him pronouns or her birth name. We can confirm that, to the best of our knowledge, that is not something backed up by historical sources, either in Carter’s book, in interviews with Marsha, or elsewhere.

I’d like to thank Laura for helping us figure this out together, and ensuring that in the face of misinformation so often spread about Marsha, we’re able to be accurate with how we talk about her and her identity.

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One of the few photos from the first night of the Stonewall Riots, photographed by Joseph Ambrosini. Featuring street queen Jackie Hormona (in the striped jumper) and several others whose names are unknown.

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“At the Tenth of Always I was always very conscious of their stopping people from dancing … you’d hear the Shangri-Las’ song—something like ‘walk across the room and give him a great big kiss’—and you could look across the room and see sexy Vinnie over there and you could get into all the longing, but you couldn’t go over and ask him to dance. “At the Stonewall Inn … not only could you ask him to dance, but a lot of other people could ask him to, so then you could get into all of the feelings, like feeling sorry for yourself in a really beautiful way like a teenager is supposed to.”

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Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, quoted in David Carter’s Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution p.84

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pride 2019 5/30 | tove jansson

Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson is best known for creating Moomins. Tove first started drawing Moomins in anti-fascist cartoons in the late 1930s, and went on to incorporate them into 14 children’s books and a long-running comic strip. Many of her characters were based off people in her life, including two of her female partners - Vivica Bandler (bottom left), and Tuuliki Pietilä.

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“The nights of Friday, June 27, 1969 and Saturday, June 28, 1969 will go down in history as the first time that thousands of Homosexual men and women went out into the streets to protest the intolerable situation which has existed in New York City for many years…”

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Flier written by activist Craig Rodwell, 29 June 1969

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pride 2019 06/30 | irish marriage equality referendum

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pride 2019 02/30 | lesbians and gays support the miners

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Deregulation strikes again.

“Free market” capitalism does NOT care about raging forest fires, it does not care about endangering firefighters, it does not care about people dying due to lack of healthcare insurance. Unregulated capatilism cares only about making profits, apparently at any and all costs.

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Yeah, i’m not letting myself forget about this

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3 year old death grip!

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omfg

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iM LAUGHING SO HARD BC THE BROTHER IS STARING AT HER LIKE “OMFG” AND SHES STANIDNG BACK THERE HOLDING HER HANDS LIKE “i never knew what i was capable of, my powers are here”

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I just reblogged this yesterday but I fucking had to do it again because it gets funnier every single time omg

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Here’s a five page comic about the invention of gender Swap potions in Pool, my fantasy comic!

The comic updates weekly on Patreon! Link in the bio! Thanks for reading! <3

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Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

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But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her. 

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I can’t stop watching this. 

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#I watched this for too long to not reblog

[freshprincemomma]

Whoa.

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Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth. 

Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached  her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…

Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him. 

Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…

Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!

Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)

This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it. 

Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….

Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.

The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins… 

So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.

She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.