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a multifandom/writing sideblog for a she/her in her 20s. always thinking about writing & poetry, movies & tv, as well as queer & disability theory.

[kitchensunflowers]

new year new me

[rosedavid]

9-1-1: LONE STAR TK (& Carlos) + lip bite smiles: hooking up -> fiancés -> husbands

[getawaywithgifs]

[gatheringbones]

“Part of the dream of queer is that it potentially has no opposite. Straight is the opposite of gay. Queer is a rejection of both. Queer was one of the first words that spoke to me as the dream I needed in order to survive. I don’t know if trans is the same as queer, I mean I know it is and I know it isn’t—I know there can be a gloriousness to the potential of trans as a reimagining beyond conventional gender expectations. If queer laid my foundations, a trans analysis rearranged the structures and gave me the space to breathe again. Transgender: to bend, mend, extend, and transcend.

The explosion of trans identities in the early-2000s challenged my own assumptions, including the assumptions that once felt like challenges, and it wasn’t just the transfeminine spectrum that gave me hope in fluidity. I’d always believed that masculinity could only be the enemy, but then there were the trans fags who showed me something beyond the predetermined, a masculinity negotiated and transformed, a flamboyance through choosing a bodily language of one’s own making. A freedom, but not a freedom from accountability. The meanings of queer and trans are constantly shifting—this is part of the allure. At once identities that declare an end to borders, and identities that constantly build walls, challenging enough to derail conversations and at the same time empty enough to use in the name of a TV show or nonprofit.

One problem with the politics of representation is that often it’s about who is represented, but not what. I’m not saying we don’t ever need an us and them. I know this is how many of us find one another, dance with the scars into arms that might hold not only to harm. I don’t think there always needs to be an invitation to join us, I don’t think this has to be the case, but I do think this should always be an option. I do think a world without borders is a dream we must hold onto—personally, politically, intimately, explosively, expressively.”

There is incredible beauty to the naming and claiming so often found in these worlds, but also there’s a frightening territorialism. I don’t want to become the cops, I want to end policing in all its forms. This is the dream that queer and trans worlds have helped me to imagine.”

mattilda bernstein sycamore, the freezer door

[madseance]

"it's not queer fiction unless the queerness is explicitly declared in the text according to currently accepted terminology and in a way that meets the approval of the entire audience" I mean follow your heart I guess but I trust myself as a queer person to recognise queer themes

[madseance]

"but doesn't this risk giving the author undue credit for queer representation" I do not care about the author

[tallahasseemp3]

All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair. Many get luck, and many get misery. Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. In the end, all becomes dust. All stories conclude with a fade to black.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka

[atlargemagazine]

Photography by Rebecca Storm

[seikilos-stele]

Ursula K. Le Guin

[sinisdreams]

Sameen Shaw (Person of Interest)

Pencils on A4.

[respirelejasmin]

Anonymity is a liminal space of queer potentiality, between the invisibility we must bear to survive, and the visibility we need to live. It is where we find, heal and love each other as our ancestors have done for generations. While the world will not tell our stories, we must tell them ourselves, even behind closed doors. Outside, the writing is on the wall: we’re here. We’ve always been here. The queers will win the world.

Hamed Sinno (Mashrou' Leila) on Pride and Mourning in the Middle East, Frieze Magazine

[expressions-of-nature]

Okinawa, Japan by Ippei & Janine

[zegalba]

Magdalena Jetelova: The Domestication of a Pyramid (2014)

[breezewong]

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from "Into the Breach", Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[balu8]

Francois Schuiten

[librarycards]

“Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked [us] as other.”

— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto.

[zegalba]

Daniel Arsham & Hajime Sorayama Sculpture: Holding Hands (2019)