[joker-ace]

they're all insane for thinking this, actually

[heavensghost]

Averno, Louise Glück

[savleye]

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[schakerin]

[hitokiri-izou]

She just like me fr

[sendme-2hell]

My top WLW SFF recommendations (at the current moment)

I didn’t mean to make the color scheme scream ‘pussy hat’ but we all make mistakes

Edit: I’m sorry I called Priory YA lol. I just see it recommended with ya a lot and when I made the list I just wasn’t sure what it qualified as YA, but if I actually think about it for a sec I realize it’s not.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament 2 Round 1

Three Seagrass- A Memory Called Empire

Daniel da Silva- Think of England

Chu Wanning- The Husky And His White Cat Shizun

Celia Lang- These Violent Delights

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Three Seagrass- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Daniel da Silva- Think of England by KJ Charles

Chu Wanning- The Husky And His White Cat Shizun by Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

Celia Lang- These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

[thelastofthebookworms]

SFF Books with Sapphic Leads (1)

A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace, Teixcalaan (Arkady Martine)

Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)

The Privilege of the Sword (Ellen Kushner)

The Stars Are Legion (Kameron Hurley)

Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Wayward Children 2 (Seanan McGuire)

This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone)

The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, The Wayfarers 1 (Becky Chambers)

Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth, The Locked Tomb 1 & 2 (Tamsyn Muir)

Show results

Voting ended onMar 5, 2023

Feel free to make suggestions. I may make another poll if there are enough candidates.

More polls.

[echollama]

Bronya after the end of Serval's quest

Also can we appreciate the delivery of this line 😭😭😭

[echollama]

Serval after learning about the truth.

[variousqueerthings]

happy pride reccing some anti-assimilationist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist books and texts

BOOKS

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? edited by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore (2012)

"Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out," what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle?"

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg (1992)

This pamphlet is an attempt to trace the historic rise of an oppression that, as yet, has no commonly agreed name. We are talking here about people who defy the ‘man’-made boundaries of gender.

Transgender Warriors: Making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg (1996)

[Leslie Feinberg's] book celebrated the resistance to transphobia and a vision of trans liberation articulated from the perspective of class struggle. It understood that no liberation from transphobia or any of the divisive and violent oppressions in class society is possible without the transformation of capitalism into socialism.

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell (1977)

Stories told of these times make the faggots and their friends weep. The second revolutions made many of the people less poor and a small group of men without color very rich. With craftiness and wit the faggots and their friends are able to live in this time, some in comfort and some in defiance.

Also this interview

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein, and S. Bear Bergman (2010)

Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being.

Made In India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects by Suparna Bhaskaran (2004)

Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism.

That's Revolting: Queer Strategies For Resisting Assimilation edited by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore (2008)

As the growing gay mainstream prioritises the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance or cultural value.

How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm (2021)

Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism" outside it.

On Connection by Kae Tempest (2020)

On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davies (2003)

If you know anything about Angela Davis—anti-racist activist, Marxist-feminist scholar—you know that her answer to the question posed in the title is "Yes." This is a short primer on the prison abolition movement

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

This profound, urgent, beautiful, and necessary book is an invitation to imagine and organize for a less violent and more liberatory world.

Black Marxism by Cedric Johnson (1983)

Influenced by many African American and Black economists and radical thinkers of the 19th century, Robinson creates a historical-critical analysis of Marxism and the Eurocentric tradition from which it evolved. The book does not build from nor reiterate Marxist thought, but rather introduces racial analysis to the Marxist tradition.

The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye (2021)

[Shon Faye] provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.

Burn The Binary: selected writings on the politics of being trans, genderqueer, and non-binary by Riki Wilchins (2017)

This single volume offers a selection of Riki’s most penetrating and insightful pieces, as well as the best of two decades of Riki’s online columns for The Advocate never before collected, from "Where Have All the Butches Gone," to "Attack of the 6-Foot Intersex People"

ARTICLES

Assuming The Perspective Of The Ancestor by Claire Schwartz (2022)

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on building constructive, future-oriented politics, at scale.

The Gender Binary Is A Tool For White Supremacy by Kravitz Marshall (2020)

A brief history of gender expansiveness - and how colonialism slaughtered it

Meet Chris Smalls, the man who organized Amazon workers in New York By Anna Betts, Greg Jaffe, and Rachel Lerman (2022)

The fired worker and former rapper did what nobody else has done in the U.S.

The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake by David Brooks (2020)

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being by Donna Lu (2020)

Extinction Isn’t the Worst That Can Happen by Kai Heron (2021)

"This brings us to the third problem with eschatological framings of the climate crisis: they overlook the fact that for many, the end of the world has already happened. In October last year, Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani woman, mother and leader, wrote a desperate letter to the western world reminding us that for Indigenous peoples, “the fires are raging still”."

MISC

Manifesto: An Aromantic Manifesto by yingchen and yingtong

free to read

their tumblr (with further resources)

Essay: I Dream Of Canteens by Rebecca May Johnson (2019)

There is a space for everyone. A space, a glass of water, and a plug socket.* Chairs and tables and cleaned toilets. So many chairs so that no one is without one.

Acceptance Speech (video and text): The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters speech by Ursula Le Guin

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.

And here's a video to cleanse the soul: bell hooks: Transgression

bell hooks & Gloria Steinem at Eugene Lang College

[sparklefartstheunicorn]

In the Life: an interview with Kate Bernstein and Leslie feinberg

Link to tiktok here

Link to full interview here

[wellconstructedsentences]

“I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex.”

— Leslie Feinberg

[recreationaldivorce]

Leslie Feinberg talking about how before there was a pride flag, the Gay Liberation Front flew the North Vietnamese flag

source

video transcription below cut

Video description

Leslie Feinberg stands at a podium giving a talk. Zie says:

In fact, we carried, before we had a pride flag, we carried the North Vietnamese flag as our pride flag. Now you could hear that and think "well that's interesting", but it wasn't just an abstract thing.

(And by the way, I know there's some people who have to leave at, uh, for a nursing class here; nobody's gonna look at you funny when you go. I know people are starting to get nervous about—don't worry, you go with our grace.)

So, the Gay Liberation Front and the Third World Liberation Front named themselves in solidarity with the North Vietnamese people at a time when that was considered treason. That's like now, coming out and defending the resistance of the Iraqi people, the Palestinian people, the North Korean people, the Iranian people, the Cuban people. We face getting beaten up on the streets for marching with the Vietnamese flag but we knew that if we didn't defend the Vietnamese people we were gonna weaken, first of all the people who deserved our support because we were the aircraft carrier in which the war was being launched in all our names. We would lose the solidarity with the Vietnamese people and we would lose our own political souls and movement as well if we didn't take a position in support.

We were supporters on the front lines of the women's liberation movement even when there were some who didn't want us to be there—who said ooh, if you could just get out of the way, because you know, we're strong women and they're calling us lesbians [be]cause you're around. We're like, excuse me, we're withstanding the lesbian invading—you better get used to that. As strong women you better get used to saying "and yes, many of us are!" Because otherwise, you'll just back yourself right off a cliff. And I would ask you, do we have an equal rights amendment today? It was not a winning strategy.

We were involved in all these struggles, but not because we said it's gonna be a tit-for-tat: "I'll do this if you'll do that. I'll come to your demo Wednesday if you come to mine Thursday." We did it because we knew it was a fight we had to join and be a part of. And it strengthened all—

The video cuts off there.

End video description

[gollivant]

thinking about how comic ambrosius betrayed comic bal for affirmation and validation — the very thing he was deprived of as a child because he grew up an orphan. that’s why he’s so competitive. he needs to prove to himself that he’s worthy of love. look at the way he invents a glorious family lineage in the christmas comic, his focus on being the good kid.

but also in the christmas comic, we see bal taking the role of ambrosius’ parent by being the one ambrosius runs to when things go wrong. we see bal filling up ambrosius’ stocking. the love and affection ambrosius has always craved is something that bal had always given to him, but he gave it all up for this facsimile of it, the false love of personal achievement. and we all know that the institution cast ambrosius aside the moment he failed them; ballister never cast ambrosius aside, even when ambrosius failed him.

but what about bal? growing up an orphan with ambrosius as his closest friend, finally making something of himself, and then being betrayed by everything he’s ever loved and known?

[haemosexuality]

oh man

[nyctophorum]

I love the film version of nimona but I do find it very funny how they’re like ‘ambrosius cut off ballister’s arm but he didn’t mean to 😢😢😢 he was just traumatised and reacting to a dangerous situation 😢😢😢’ whereas in the comic it’s like ‘ambrosius shot ballister with a laser canon that took off his whole fucking arm just because he couldn’t bear to lose lol. Lmao, even’