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Harry singing Smells Like Teen Spirit in Tokyo, Japan - January 13 (via sk8rmom420)

[crunchie-morris]

New personality test

What vine do you think of first when you hear the word “avacado?”

[ampervadasz]

Menő

[thecoggs]

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

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This is really great??

Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke

Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich

Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow

Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe

Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker

Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi

Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez

Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking

Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt

Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson

Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim

Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein

Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes

Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn

Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza

Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk

Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson

Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley

Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.

Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV

Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega

Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos

Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

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We used it in my LGBT history class and it’s SO WONDERFUL I LOVE it PLEASE READ at least some chapters. It has photos and sources and goes into detail in footnotes when it doesn’t have time for a tangent.

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[devourfrombeneath]

if you can’t inspire yourself to leap blindly into absurdity then how the hell you gonna inspire somebody else can i get an amen

[presidents]

one of the things i’ve always thought about doing was a close documentation of my time as a student (again), which was kind of what i did when i did my undergrad eight to twelve (!) years ago. but it turns out that it’s harder to find time to do these things when you’re much, much older. to recap, i just turned thirty, and i’ve been based in london for about a year and like, three weeks.

i mostly really like it. no, that’s a bit modest. i really, really like it. i kind of hate that i want to stay here because it’s expensive and it means that i have to exert effort into something that’s bound to be a bit bureaucratic, which digs up one of the worst kinds of anxiety in me.

i don’t get homesick (lol sry) but i do miss lots of people a lot. i’ve started working at a clothes store on regent street, which i didn’t realise was a global flagship store, but my point in mentioning that is to say that i’ve filed for a holiday leave and i hope i get it.

other than that, i have to say that i am permanently stewing in this low-level panic with regards to my dissertation, but there are bits of time sometimes when it feels so thrilling, it feels like a bunch of tiny fireworks lit up inside my chest. that’s the best kind of feeling, and i’m just a bit sad it doesn’t come to me as often as i’d like to.

[presidents]

dispatches from londontown. kind of!

[zirschnitz]

“When Giving Is All We Have”

One river gives Its journey to the next.

We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us.

We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.

We have been better for it, We have been wounded by it—

Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet, Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails.

Its story is old, the plot worn and the pages too, But we read this book, anyway, over and again:

Giving is, first and every time, hand to hand, Mine to yours, yours to mine.

You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are simple green. You gave me

What you did not have, and I gave you What I had to give—together, we made

Something greater from the difference. — Alberto Ríos

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[presidents]

thank you notes no. 7

i’m thankful that it’s a monday, and that i’m back home again for the time being, that i haven’t felt the overwhelming urge to write one of these, since i seem to only really want to if i am grasping at things to be thankful about. i’m thankful that that seems to mean that for the past six months, i have found a way to be grateful or that i have been okay enough to ignore the times when things didn’t seem to go so well.

i’m thankful that there always seems to be room for change, so that if things change for the worse, you can almost always trust in even a slight uptick. i’m thankful that even if that’s possibly untrue, it’s still real enough to sort of believe in.

i’m thankful for good books and poetry and t.v. that starts out shitty but shapes up to be really, really good. i’m thankful that i’m peaceful enough today to write these things down.

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[weepingwidar]

Mamma Andersson

[presidents]

happy birthday carina!

thank you jay! :)

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thank you notes no. 6

i’m thankful i’m on meds, because otherwise—

tyn no. 5

[p96al]

self care is also being honest with yourself about your negative habits and mistakes. it’s also taking ownership of your faults and growing from them. self care is diverting from a negative space to a positive one. creating light and balance. blooming. watering your own flowers. being gentle but honest with yourself.

so take care.