make it happen

just a place to hold some bullet journal and aesthetic inspiration

[shamebats]

[shamebats]

She's hilarious, I love her

[shamebats]

[what-even-is-thiss]

People on language learning YouTube videos are always like “We are learning languages to speak them”

But I’m not. I talk to enough people in English. As I’ve said before, I’m learning Spanish in order to eavesdrop on people in the grocery store.

[diabeticlesbian]

I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

[diabeticlesbian]

Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)

[diabeticlesbian]

Magda Romanska, “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - Virginia L. Blum

[diabeticlesbian]

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie (ebook free to download this month 06/2020)

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out. Julie Dash, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson, Leslie Harris and Theodore Witcher on a boom that went bust, and what’s different now. - Reggie Ugwu

[diabeticlesbian]

You can now search and browse every edition of Spare Rib online!

(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)

How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.

What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin

“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata

How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Solidarity Cinema

Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto

Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)

Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold

“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear - Toni Morrison

[diabeticlesbian]

My Withered Legs - Sandra Gail Lambert

Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)

You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy

The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.

A Man and his Hoe

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans

May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews

Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80

A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute

5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman

“Feminism was not invented by American women.” Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

[diabeticlesbian]

How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay - Katherine Blouin, Monica Hanna, Sarah E. Bond

[diabeticlesbian]

Glass, Irony and God (The Gender of Sound) - Anne Carson

The Archivettes: A Sinister Wisdom Conversation with Megan Rossman (video)

‘I am not a pretty woman. And that’s never felt like more of a crime than in 2020.’ - Katie Scoble

Girls are cruelest to themselves: The Glass Essay - Anne Carson

Social media can be bad for our self-image. Could marking photos as edited help? - Paulina Jayne Isaac

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

Joan Nestle in Conversation with Cheryl Clarke @ Sinister Wisdom (video)

Decreation - Anne Carson

New World Order: The scream’s a good weapon. - Sarah Nicole Prickett

[diabeticlesbian]

GAY LIBERATION FRONT: Looking Back At The Revolutionary LGBTQ Group 50 Years On - Cliff Joannou with Dan Glass

Ceramic Review Masterclasses videos)

Gay Pride 1979- Inside Story (Documentary)

15 Songs About AIDS - Sal Cinquemani

“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic - Clarity Haynes

Revenant Journal Archives: Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird.

The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1937)

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh

Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar - Maria Bustillos

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. Why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on TV? - Caroline Kitchener

HoneyHands Magazine

Some Women’s Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of [U.S.] Legal Reform - Terri Nilliasca

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. - Mychel Denzel Smith

Possession (1981)

Have You Seen This Bird: The Emotional and Ecological Ramifications of an Obsessive Kinship with Frank, a Neighbourhood Scrub-Jay. - Elisabeth Nicula

Painting Ghosts: Running into the cold, restorative waves with artist Nicole Eisenman. - Andrew Durbin

Nevada - Imogen Binne

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Child Pageants and the Performance of Gender. - Lisa Wade, PhD

The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo - Bess Lovejoy

Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

The beautiful language of bookplates - Alexandra Hills

Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along - Riva Lehrer

The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins - Roberta Smith

The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men. - Kate Handley

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin

‘A fair chance for girls’: The law of periodicity and the Viavi system - Lalita Kaplish

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

The sickness in the wellness industry - Gwendolyn Smith

‘Unsettling the men’: the representation of transgressive female desire in Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948) - Paul Mazey

Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses - Christine Ro

How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap - Ryu Spaeth

A Symbol of a Lost Homeland - Yasmeen Abdel Majeed

Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - Bethan Bell

Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies. - Rachel Bennett, Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland

[quietwingsinthesky]

did i tell you guys i failed at being sexually harassed at work today?

[quietwingsinthesky]

okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”

and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!

his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.

So I Answered It.

and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-

i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.

anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.

[sage-green-kitchen]

Growing up on AO3 and then becoming an archivist as a career is such an interesting experience because one day you sit down to enter meta data and use the controlled vocabularies to tag .... wait.... this seems familiar .... I've been doing this since I was 12!

[dogpuppy]

[genderoutlaws]

Fat Claude and her girlfriend at Le Monocle, a lesbian bar in Paris, in 1936. Photographed by multi-hyphenate Hungarian-French artist Brassaï

[metamorphesque]

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

[gothredy]

[smoooothbrain]

do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

[byjove]

Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.

[thefugitivesaint]

Marjorie Miller, 'Queen of the Night', ''The Tatler'', Vol. 122, #1581, 1931

[riotd]

source

[arctic-hands]

I am once again vexed by what the bullet journal has become, when there are people who could really find value in the simplistic organization method it was originally designed to be by someone with ADHD

I really think people need to accept the fact that their aesthetically markered and extravagantly washi taped notebooks are actually art journals or even scrapbooks or junk journals, not bullet journals as a tool to help stay organized

[littlemenaces]

Yes And

If I (as someone with adhd) make my bujo into an art project, I hack my brain into actually using it to stay organized. Generally one catch-all bujo and one pocket sketchbook is my go to combination

[machineteethepoch]

[druggie]

[flagellant]

(encouragingly) i believe you will be able to kill poeple with your awesome claws

*sniffles* t-true? 🥺🥺🥺