Queer In Califas

finding solace in solitude. queer chamorrita, learning the art of practicing self-love. CROSSING BORDERS on the daily, socalifas por vida, puromexicoenmicorazón.

[quotefeeling]

“I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”

— Charles Bukowski

[women-loving-art]

“I thought the earth remembered me, / she took me back so tenderly,”

— Mary Oliver, from Sleeping In The Forest

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Nelly Sachs, from “The Seeker.”

[feral-ballad]

Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]

[gacougnol]

Jean Philippe Charbonnier

Inuits, le pauvre bon chien et deux oursons pas en peluche

Wainwright, Alaska, 1955

[inneroptics]

 Ferruccio Ferroni -  Dancers, 1954 

[luthienne]

Anne Carson, from H of H Playbook

[Text ID: Hello dusk! // Why is light emotional?]

[weltenwellen]

“You who sadden. Now burnt. Now nocturne.”

— Anne Carson, from “Ares’ Sugar Aria”, Decreation

[metamorphesque]

The Eternal Idol, Auguste Rodin

[biandlesbianliterature]

I know I am not the first reviewer to say this, but Last Night at the Telegraph Club is exactly the sort of book I was looking for in high school.  It is a compelling historical fiction novel centered around a protagonist whose story so rarely gets told, but in Lo’s capable hands, no part of this feels unfamiliar.  I was able to both see myself and learn where I did not, and when I finally closed the book, it left me feeling whole in the way that all my favorite books do. I cannot recommend it enough.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo was reviewed at the Lesbrary.

[jenlavida]

Loving this book!

[flowerytale]

John Keats, from “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819)

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: My heart aches ] 

[chillpotato]

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[soracities]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[evanzbuck]

#for science

[futw]

D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill in A League of Their Own (2022–)

[wedarkacademia]

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Clarice Lispector