looking for queer joy

Back here after a 10 year hiatus. What a time...

[victorianchap]

[vintagemen1800s1900s]

c. 1890 Postcard

[plenilune]

HAPPY NEW YEAR GO INTO THE SOUP

[myqueershoulder]

I might have a purple pen problem. #stationaryaddict #japanesepens #bulletjournal #penaddict #purplepen

[myqueershoulder]

I'm 32 today. Celebrating by having tea at a hotel with a giant picture of Marlene Dietrich.

[myqueershoulder]

East London schoolgirl who left Wes Anderson for a lurid affairs with 1990s Kate Moss. Can this be my aesthetic? Anyway, I clearly need to visit this shop. http://www.wweek.com/arts/2016/08/19/another-portland-designer-will-be-on-project-runway-and-she-just-opened-a-shop-in-southeast/

[lifeinpoetry]

Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.

Sappho, from Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works tr. Diane Rayor (via lifeinpoetry)

#the more i look at this the more i love it#aphrodite just slam dunked this poor lady into the gay zone#can’t get anything fuckin done today too busy getting wrecked over girls#aphrodite i had some shit to do today i was gonna make a new chiton#aphrodite could you please stop mopping the floor with my face i had chores#not cool#my mom’s not gonna understand this aphrodite#she’s going to be like ‘okay well do the dishes’#HOW CAN I DO THE DISHES WHEN I AM THIS GAY APHRODITE#HOW??

(via rainbowbarnacle)

@aprillikesthings was just telling me about this! Sorry mom! Can’t do chores. Too gay!

[lagarconnierefashion-deactivate]

There is a lot to take in when it comes to appropriate dressing and proper suiting. Embodying the term “sprezzatura” (which means the art of performing a difficult task so gracefully that it looks effortless), it is always essential to plan out your clothing in advance. A smart choice of accessories and a nice patterned tie can add punches of character to any kind of look you are aiming at. coat & umbrella / Brooks Brothers shirt / Cego NYC vest & tie / no name trousers / Zara briefcase / Ghurka shoes / Allen Edmonds

[domirine]

the beautiful schuyler sisters

[endofeva1997]

wheres that picture of gwendoline christie holding a baseball bat sitting near a book that’s titled “gay sex devices”

[endofeva1997]

i found it

[myqueershoulder]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9C4e_x33M) I passed classroom academy at work, and I have one last weekend before I start a new schedule with a coach at the floor. To celebrate, I’m taking the train to Seattle to see a play about Sherlock Holmes. 

[luntfontanne]

“skewed too female for the network’s schedule” nice to know CBS still really cares about women!!!! (x)

[birdcagesanddemons]

“It tested well with audiences.” Who do you want to watch your show? An audience. So what should matter before you decide what to pick up? The audience’s opinion! And who are 50% of the world’s population and thus 50% of their potential audience? Exactly, WOMEN! Will they EVER learn?

[myqueershoulder]

Every show I’m interested in watching has been cancelled. 

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[continuants]

PUT ME IN THE TRASH WITH MY TRASH SNACKS WHERE I BELONG

[chlorokin-deactivated20210101]

@quoth-the-ravenclaw

[skippingismagnificent]

[arieskw33n]

goals

[svnsetromance]

the handmaiden (아가씨) / dir. park chan-wook, 2016

[biandlesbianliterature]

[image description: 6 gifs from the trailer for The Handmaiden, a movie adaptation of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters set in 1930s South Korea and Japan (instead of Victorian England)]

[myqueershoulder]

So when do I get to see this in Portland?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

just learned that jean-jacques rousseau was so deeply deeply obsessed with being spanked - such a spank maniac if you will, that he used to drop trou and sprint backwards ass first at unsuspecting women on the off chance their first instinct would be to spank his bare ass

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i know this because he published it in his biography. he was an extremely influential philosopher and this is his story as he chose to share it

[lieutenantfish]

The world is a rich tapestry.

[casualhottubharmony]

I GOOGLED THIS ONLY TRYING TO FIND OUT IF IT WAS TRUE AND I RAN INTO AN ESSAY DISCUSSING HOW IT MAKES HIM QUEER

[casualhottubharmony]

”This study explores the way that Rousseau’s Confessions disrupts the binary of sexual difference via Rousseau’s sexualization of and identification with the bottom. I argue that Rousseau’s exhibition of his bottom to groups of women is key for understanding a queer structure of sexuality that begins with the famous spanking episode. Ultimately, Rousseau’s queer bottom aligns him with the feminine sex while simultaneously differentiating him from the typical structures that would fix sexual or gender difference.“

A. Hunter. Rousseau’s Queer Bottom:Sexual Difference in the Confessions. University of Arkansas, 2007. 62 pages.

[myqueershoulder]

I’ve probably read Rousseau’s Social Contract a dozen times, but we never read his spanking books in political science classes. Now I’m picturing Thomas Jefferson reading Confessions. 

[dazeddigital]

David Bowie talks about the internet in 1999

[eruditorumpress]

Bowie understood Basilisks.

[highway62]

He wasn’t wrong.

[mediamattersforamerica]

The Daily Show and the USWNT take on myths about the wage gap (and destroy a Fox News guest’s opposition to equal pay in the process).

[crytandy-blog]

dude WHAT

[thebrightstar-blog]

Ooooooh I’m so fucking MAD

[kateordie]

DAMN that is not a small difference

[myqueershoulder]

Fairly sure I should see this movie today, because the poster looks amazing.