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Writing, reading, Latinxing, queering, cocktailing, and social justice. Not necessarily in that order.

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Love seeing my friends reacting to my debut novel As You Look. What’s it about? A Latina PI struggles with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies after her mom’s death. She must come to terms with all three to solve her godson’s kidnapping and find her wife’s stalker, or risk losing yet another loved one. Get it at Amazon or Bella Books.

As You Look – eBook

As You Look – eBook

As You Look (A Yolanda Ávila Mystery, 1) [Gutiérrez, Verónica] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. As You Look (A Yolanda Á

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Me, when I realize that my first novel “As You Look” is available for presale on several websites. Get yours at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. What’s it about? Yolanda Avila, a Los Angeles private investigator, struggles with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies following the death of her mother. Her struggle peaks when she must solve her godson’s kidnapping and find her wife’s stalker, or risk losing yet another loved one.

[siir-poesia]

I hear a storm throbbing, I hear its thunder in my chest, I feel the rain washing away my feelings.

siir-poesia ©

Escucho palpitar una tormenta, escucho sus truenos en mi pecho, siento cómo la lluvia se lleva mis sentimientos.

siir-poesia ©

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Guau. La belleza de la idioma es maravillosa. (Wow. The beauty if the language is maevelous.) I don’t think the English does it justice.

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Veronica Gutierrez | Author of As You Look

Looking for a couple of queer mystery lovers interested in provding feedback on my manuscript. If you’ve read two or more mysteries in the last year and you’re interested, please contact me via my website. Experienced beta readers especially welcome. Would be ever grateful. Gracias!

[lordendsavior]

“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”

Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are “double agents for the patriarchy”

[warmbath]

[musicnerderys]

WAOW

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Just read THE DOLL MAKER by Claire Highton-Stevenson—in one day! I can’t remember the last time I did that. Great suspense with authentic romance. It mercifully spares us most of the gore and avoids stereotypical exploitation, but delves into psych clues and realistic characters. Great read. And that cover!

Amazon.com: The Doll Maker: A Detective Sophie Whitton Story (9781790206803): Claire Highton-Stevenson: Books

[la-laborista-republiko]

[bloodytales]

My 4 year old nephew loves to paint his nails. Any time he sees someone wear nail polish he asks if he can have some too. The most difficult part is getting him to decide what color, because he he wants all of them.

Nail polish is for everyone.

[bloodytales]

Update!!

The kid’s favorite football player responded with support.

[finninsanelycoolish-deactivated]

THISSSSS

[launturnforest]

let the boy wear nail polissshh

[neverthere12345]

[feministories]

Oh, you have to see the final product: 

And that glorious woman even wrote the whole process here: http://www.laramiserrano.com/industrial-desk-diy/

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You go, girl!

[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. 

[tarastarr1]

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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Study by the National Park Service. Who knew?

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Great for home bartenders and professional mixologists, alike, My Little Black Cocktail Book is a convenient, pocket-sized journal with prompts to capture all the best of your favorite cocktails. Good for researching that perfect drink or developing a new cocktail menu. Better than scribbles on a cocktail napkin!

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How to say “I love you”(te amo) in  Mexican Indigenous languages. By: Asociación Tepalcayotl A. C.

“Tascolo Conton”              Language: TZOTZIL

“Ni Nigare”                 Language: TARAHUMARA

“Siya”                Language: MAZAHUA

“Nimitztlazohtla”           Language:  NAHUATL

“Uémbekua”              Language: PUREPECHA

“ In yaakumech”            Language: MAYA

“Suague Lé”         Language: MAZATECO

“ Bii’ naana ‘no”          Language: CHINANTECO

“Nadxxieli”            Language: ZAPOTECO

“KONAK PASKIYAN”           Language: TOTONACO

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Q: Does it give you a hunger to win another Slam? 

Stephens: Of course! Did you see that check that lady handed me?

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TRILL AF

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[thebootydiaries]

don’t u ever come near me or my son again

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❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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Italian Doctors Fooled Nazis by Inventing This Fake Disease

In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.

“Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish” and in need of protection, Ossicini told Italian newspaper La Stampa last year. The “K” stood for Albert Kesselring and Herbert Kappler — two ruthless Nazi commanders.

The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.

The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

The Jewniverse

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I am so absolutely pissed off that i never learned this in school