there is no better feeling than walking around a book store and seeing a book you’ve read so you smirk at it knowingly
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there is no better feeling than walking around a book store and seeing a book you’ve read so you smirk at it knowingly
For those who have trouble reading that:
Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.” You’re right!
From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.
He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses. William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.
He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.
When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.
Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!
William Dorsey Swann is the original queen, the original drag mother, the original activist. Tell his story!
𝚋𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍
🎨𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚊 𝙷𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛
my life lately has just been like *reads oscar wilde* *listens to hozier* *writes down some oscar wilde quote* *listens to abba* *reads jane austen* *reads oscar wilde* *listens to hozier* *writes down
Amanda Gorman’s poetry was fucking powerful
“Kindergarten On the Walk” by Nadezhda Vorobyova (1978)
Chicago, Monroe Street, Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, Smithsonian: American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=15401
Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Ilya Kaminsky, from “To Kiss a Forehead.”
something about layers always makes me feel so prepared... like a backpack on its own is great, but a backpack over a jean jacket over a flannel over a tank top? killer. heavy boots on their own are great, but heavy boots over thick socks, laced up around the bottom of your jeans? dude. off we go on an adventure
and by using racist as a noun (“I’m not a racist”) rather than an adjective (“You did this racist action”) you show how weak your grasp is on understanding how prevalent microaggressions are by convincing yourself that one must be a certain way to carry out racist actions when really we are all equally capable of doing so if we fail to continuously consider our actions
Hilma af Klint, Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1, 1915
“What’s it like to be a history major?”
When did kneecaps become such a target for violent threats? "I will kneecap you". "I will steal your kneecaps". Why? What do kneecaps have that are so special? I don't see people threatening the tibea. No one even looks twice at the fibula. What has caused the primacy of the patella?
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hallelujah, here i go again
I live every day knowing my ancestors are looking down at me and saying “what the hell went wrong here” and I think that’s beautiful
Cast off the shackles of yesterday! Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Mary Poppins (1964)