#michael warner

[mythopoetic-mixtape]

Reading Appreciation

Since living with brain injury and long covid I've gained a deeper appreciation for the ability to read, listen to, and make books. Here are a few that I'm especially loving lately:

Special thank you for sharing your work, The Master's Quest, to @queen-mihai. Queer speculative fiction like this is where we find blueprints for a better future.

Barely a chapter into Michael Warner's The Trouble with Normal, and "The ethics of sexual shame," has my CRYING, so validating and on point.

[timesnewrona]

sexuality as an (un)queer institution

(from Warner, Fear of a Queer Planet, 1993)

[strange-fig]

brain addled by english degree

[withnailrules]

I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?

Michael Warner

[days-of-reading]

Michael Warner, “Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood” (2004)

[c86]

Queer Pride is infinite

Photography by Dan Nicoletta - International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day, San Francisco, 24 June 1990

[bunch-of-birds]

Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio)

© Michael Warner

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?

Michael Warner, Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children