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I’ve been holding this piece close to my heart for months, but it’s time to share. This is a portrait of my queer family. It’s a memorial for the ancestors who have gone before, and a tribute to the youth who will come after me. It’s a love letter to the family I have now. It’s a votive offering for peace and ease in all queer lives.
I love you all.
“Family Portrait”
Wood, duralar, candles, silver chain.
Dimensions vary
beetle table <3 maple, white oak, walnut
Just so everyone is aware because I didn’t realize at first,
OP MADE THIS TABLE AND IT IS SICK AF
Listening Through Queer History
In all the discussion about how reading is necessary in a world of book bannings, I want to highlight accessible reading. If sitting down and reading a physical book is not something your body wants to do, there are other ways. Ebooks are great, especially when it's physically challenging to hold up a heavy book, but my personal favourite accessibility tool is audiobooks.
Not every queer history book has been recorded as an audiobook, but there are some amazing ones that deserve attention, which is why I made a libro.fm playlist (linked above) for some of my favourites so far. I hope this makes accessing queer history easier for people who otherwise would feel distanced in the often elitist/ableist world of academia.
In the future I would love it if more textbooks were made into audiobooks, but that will of course take time. For now many of these books on this list are something someone who has never read about queer history before could pick up. There is an array of identities, age ranges, and subjects. I hope everyone finds something to love!
Tearoom by William E Jones
Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a restroom under the main square of the city. The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror.
The film they shot was used in court as evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary. The original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this case for a documentary project. The unedited scenes of ordinary men of various races and classes meeting to have sex were so powerful that the director decided to present the footage with a minimum of intervention. Tearoom is a radical example of film presented “as found” for the purpose of circulating historical images that have otherwise been suppressed.
The movie itself can be seen here:
http://www.williamejones.com/collections/view_videos/15
I have been quoting this all morning while muted in a teams meeting
Authority
Andrea Long Chu
Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical 2018 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a leading public intellectual and a bold cartographer of the new landscape of taste itself. Authority brings together sharp, illuminating essays on everything from musical theater to sci-fi novels, as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of personal essays first published in the magazine n+1. Throughout, Chu defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, charging fellow critics like Maggie Nelson and Zadie Smith with complacent humanism and modeling how the left might brave the culture wars with both its faculty of judgment and its sense of justice intact.
In two magisterial new essays, Chu offers a fresh intellectual history of criticism’s crisis of authority, tracing the surprisingly political contours of the discipline from its origins in the Enlightenment to our present age of social media. The desire to recover some lost authority, she argues, is neither new nor particularly freeing. Rather than being taken in by an endless cycle of trumped-up emergencies over the state of our culture, Authority makes a compelling case for how to do criticism in light of the actual crises, from climate change to rising authoritarianism, that confront us today.
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“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)
leaving out a very vital part of the quote
'The Fatigue' by Mihail Zablodski (2022)
There's a lot of queers out there that find it hard to plan for a future wherein society doesn't want them in it. Can you offer a queer reading list of queer folx who have resisted authoritarian regimes? Any particular figures that stand out? Quotes? Are there other Claude Cahuns in history to offer inspiration in these times? Any stories of support networks that persisted throughout the AIDs genocide like the San Diego Blood Sisters? I'm sorry for so many questions; this topic has been weighing heavily on me.
I absolutely understand this, and I have some stories for you.
For articles:
George Everett Klippert tells the story of a man who changed the shape of a country because he was loved.
Jackie Shane tells the story of a trans woman of colour in the fifties who had a happier story than you'd expect.
Simon Tseko Nkoli tells the story of a man who fought back.
Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir, A.K.A Agent Bronx tells the story of a woman who survived.
For books (affiliate links below) :
The Women's House of Detention
A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Hugh Ryan
The Freaks Came Out to Write
The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
Tricia Romano
Liberated
The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun
Kaz Rowe
Nothing Ever Just Disappears
Seven Hidden Queer Histories
Diarmuid Hester
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell (Author), Ned Asta (Illustrator)
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Ben MacIntyre
The New Queer Conscience
Adam Eli
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make out sonnet by F. Douglas Brown
Punishing queer people for coming out as bisexual during Pride month is cruel and small minded.
Policing the limits of what kinds of sexuality can be expressed is queerphobic.
Fascism thrives when a community self-polices, and some of you are starting to talk an awful lot like cops.
Pride month is over 😩
So listen i have this book coming out in uhhh 10 days and I am Worried about it, because it is a Comedy, and comedy is really hard to market (why????? it's funny pirates, what's not to like??) even when it is, yanno, normal mainstream comedy.
It is even worse when it is Unhinged Comedy That's Mostly Going To Be Funny To People On Tumblr. (For example, the main character being a supreme gremlin made of 90% memes by weight (examples: carries around a bag that is never called anything but his "little rucksack"; has a near-verbatim "stick me legy out real far" moment; talks about his metaphorical "orphan gruel bowl" which is a direct reference to that one Oliver Twist gif) because those are funny to me personally.) Unhinged Tumblr Comedy is difficult because tumblr is not a platform where it is easy to market things to people, because we are generally violently anti-capitalist and LOATHE advertisements and reflexively resist being marketed to for most anything. I LOVE that about this website. Except for right now, because I have bills to pay and a cat to feed. So look, fellow tumblr gremlins, I am just trying to say that if your personal brand of comedy is laughing at the kind of jokes that could only be produced on this hell website, and:
you like pirates
you're queer and want to read more books by queer authors
you want your fictional queer characters to be a hell of a lot more Messy and Unhinged than they often are depicted as being
you're interested in seeing a love triangle (M/M/NB) that resolves into polyamory
you want books where the hottest character gets to makes Passionate Speeches about rebelling against oppressive institutional regimes like governments and organized religions
you believe that capitalism is the most oppressive institutional regime of them all
you think it's fun when two characters have been in a 15-year-long relationship where the vibes have been "We're Newly Divorced" nearly since day one
you believe that All Cops Are Bastards and want to know what to do when you get pulled over by the boat cops
you think the Great British Bake-Off would be improved with weaponry, ritualized bribery/coercion of judges, and elaborate shit-talk
then this book might be for you. Beneath the wall-to-wall hijinks, it is political and it is righteously angry and it is the funniest thing I have ever written (which is saying something, because I have written some funny shit). It's called RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. Here's a picture of it.
If all that sounds cool, you can read a review of it here and the first chapter of it here to see if it as funny as I am claiming it is, and then if you think that it is, you can preorder it here. It comes out on June 11! Ten days from now!
Thank you for letting me market to you for a minute. Signal boosting would be very much appreciated.
I manage to get an eARC of this book (highlight of my year) and can confirm it is absurdly funny. I was half worried my neighbors would call in a noise complaint with how hard I was laughing. Also if you are a fancy books™️ person like myself the broken bonding has a BEAUTIFUL signed edition with painted edges, foiling, the works
Good news: this book IS one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. Comedy is Hard but THIS BOOK is pure comedy. (With a side of horny and heart)
okay, I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this going in, but when I got to "he'd managed to rhyme 'strap-on' with 'denouement`" I had to put my laptop down because I was laughing so hard I was worried I'd drop it
and I sent just that line to my partner, who I'd expect to be much more in the target audience for this kind of Gremlin Story than me, and said "I might have to buy this book."
Friends, pals, buds, it has been nearly a year since the book came out, and the paperback is coming out next month (June 17th)!!! So if you have been waiting for the paperback, now is time to preorder it!
You need this book.
My girlfriend and I quote this book constantly because it's just that good.
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