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wise words

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T shirt that says "I ❤️ being a genetic dead end"

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Guys please stop calling hot people “daddy” or “mommy”. Sigmund Freud is getting too strong and is trying to break out of his casket.

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I think we need to start making movies shittier again. Lots of stop-motion monsters, buckets of neon red blood, cheap ass costumes, everyone has their tits out, every night scene has fifty fog machines going, you get what I mean. Everything needs to look like it has a budget of twenty bucks.

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Bicon, Megan Fox geeking out over Jennifer's Body and its legacy.

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Decolonized Booklist - Queer Edition

Lil Nas X is letting y'all know that queerness is not a “white people thing.” 💁🏾‍♀️🌈

Queerness is ancestral || queer folks existed in pre-colonial spaces, struggled and resisted under colonialism, and are kicking down barriers in the 21st century.

Here are some must reads by scholars, poets, and activists who are sharing the histories, lived experiences, and ancestral-liberation work of those who came before and those blooming and yet to come~

Find their works listed below on my Neighborhood Historian bookshop.

Top Picks

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde (1984)

Freedom To Love For ALL: Homosexuality is not Un-African - Yemisi Ilesanmi (2013)

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity -  C Riley Snorton (2017)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (2019)

Black Girl, Call Home - Jasmine Mans (2021)

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice - Shon Faye (Pre-Order)

Queer History, Activism, and Liberation in the United States (by time period)

Female Husbands: A Trans History - Jen Manion (2020)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco - Clare Sears (2014)

We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History - R. Richard Wagner (2019)        

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 - Julio Capó (2017)

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage - Lauren Jae Gutterman (2019) 

Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics - Timothy Stewart-Winter (2017)        

The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America - Erin Cervini (2021)

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation - Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown (2019)

Queer Twin Cities - collected by Twin Cities Glbt Oral History Project (2010)

Queerness Across Borders and Generations

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib (2019)

Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation - (2020)

Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims - Mitra Rastegar (Pre-Order)

Lived Experiences and Memories in Marginalized Spaces

Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming - Carly Thomsen (2021)

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City - Gregory Samantha Rosenthal (Pre-order)

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel - Bernardine Evaristo (2019)

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual - Merle Miller (1971)

Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender - Mia McKenzie (2014)

Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers - Anne Balay (2016)

Rust Belt Burlesque: The Softer Side of a Heavy Metal Town - Erin O'Brien and Bob Perkoski (2019)

Study Resources

We Will Always Be Here: A Guide to Exploring and Understanding the History of LGBTQ+ Activism in Wisconsin - Jenny Kalvaitis and Kristen Whitson (2021)

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - edited by Margaret Busby (2019)

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology - E. Patrick Johnson (2005)

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lgbt cinema 40/? • the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dunye — sometimes you have to create your own history

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I wonder how many gay people are actually transgender & dont know it because people thing being transgender is transitioning when it’s literally just not being cis.

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Feel Good (2020)

My whole life I’ve felt like I’m not in the right place, like even when I was a kid I just felt like there was some other place that I was supposed to be, always running behind this other place. And I’ve been with good people, really good people, people who love me. And I lie next to them and I just feel so restless. And then when I lie next to you I feel still, and quiet deep inside. I think you’re that place I’ve been running behind.

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#LwiththeT

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The Good Place (2016-2020) Created by Michael Schur

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Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

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some of my favorite reviews of Love, Simon (2018) so far

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I’m confused.

I started this blog because I’m confused. In February of this year I came out as bisexual. I told my boyfriend, my best friend, and my mom. They were all positive experiences and not a big deal and I haven’t really talked about it to anyone since. Flash forward several months, my boyfriend and I break up, I move home and start watching a lot of lesbian youtubers.

One youtuber named Alayna Joy came out as a lesbian this year after years of identifying as bisexual, and through her videos I was introduced to the lesbian master doc, and I related to a lot of what was written in it. Cue me freaking out discovering I was a lesbian, but after thinking about it for a while I still thought this could still mean I’m bisexual after thinking about my past experiences with men and how I feel about men now.

It can be hard to figure this stuff out in general, but during a pandemic where I’m not seeing anyone outside of my family anymore, and I don’t feel comfortable sitting down and talking to my mom about this, or my friends over text or FaceTime right now, I just feel really alone. And confused.

This blog is for me to document my journey I guess in exploring my sexuality, and for me to be a part of the lgbtq+ community on tumblr while still staying personally anonymous for the time being.

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But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

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And I know that I’m losing my mind And it feels like I’m losing you twice Is it worth the price? What have I gotten into?                                                                                       —Fletcher, Sex (With My Ex)