[maelwife]

I love jaywalking with another pedestrian lol we’re unionized

[ilikesoupandcookies]

more of droplets from the archive

[grates]

petition for things to stop

[boccher]

doctor will fix me they'll do a scan and find a terrible darkness seated in my stomach and be like "oh my god we're so sorry we were supposed to remove this at birth like everyone else, i don't know how this was missed, we're so sorry you've been living like this your whole life" and it'll fix my brain too and all clouds will part

[metamorphesque]

Paintings of Archways, Doors and Windows, 2003 (oil on panel), Leon Morrocco

[tamarrud]

Settler Colonialism, Sai Englert

[saintfelina]

women in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga gets emotional after Bad Bunny wins Album Of The Year at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 1st 2026

“I thought what he said was incredibly important right now and so inspiring. What’s happening in this country is incredibly heartbreaking. We’re so lucky to have leaders like him that are speaking up for what’s true and what’s right.” – Lady Gaga on Bad Bunny’s Grammy win

[gouged-doll]

[sweatermuppet]

the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself, intended as a creative writing exercise by Divya Victor, who asks to be credited

[transmascreplica]

are we too far gone

[audioexorcisms]

[heavensghost]

Accidentally put my whole fucking heart into something that wasnt fucking meant for me again fucking hell

[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)

[rubypomegranates]

“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”

Alice Wong “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century”

[vamptits]

okay yay. I made a million mistakes but I get it now. small bird 🙂‍↕️

[vamptits]

mindset-altering sentence.

[foxgloves-garden]

What a lovely bird 💜

[thequeensthroat]

all academic writing is either addison rae reveals the meaning (see fig. 1) or a genre I call the "troubling industrial complex" where you identify something that engages hegemonic power in a way that is ambiguous and incoherent and instead of arriving at a coherent reading of it via the work of your thinking and writing (you know like the job that academic writing is supposed to do) you make a really emphatic but essentially contentless claim that it "troubles" that power structure. and often you start reading academic writing and you're like is this addison rae reveals the meaning or is it troubling industrial complex and they're like I don't understand and you pull out a diagram explaining what is addison rae reveals the meaning and what is troubling industrial complex and they laugh and say "it's good academic writing sir" so you read it and it's troubling industrial complex.

fig 1.

[caats]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

via @jacubesilvora #and what if the ghosts that haunt us are kind