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bringing this blog the fuck back i'm applying to grad school and i do environmental humanities now. i hate editing.

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reading classic lit is like: *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay parts*  *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay parts*  *underlines gay par

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books?? amazing. paperbacks?? soft, cozy, may fit in your pocket, cheap so you don’t feel bad for taking notes in them. hardcovers??? beautiful, pristine, ground you into the world they hold by making you grip them tighter, the stars of every bookshelf. ebooks?? convenient, cheap, always with you, a vast library that you can hold in your palm. new books?? crisp, the smell of wood, ideas waiting to imprint themselves upon the world. old books?? objects transcending history, sweet smelling, enriched by the hands that stroked their pages. books.

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“we felt sorry for the owls.”

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modernist scholars be like “what the fuck is modernism.”

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the portrait of a lady in a park today.

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beach reading pt. 2

one of my all time favorites! my grandmother gave me this book when i was twelve years old, and many years later there’s still some magic to it that i return to every summer. though i usually devour one new boon after the other, it was comforting to slip back into familiar writing and sit with it once more. a perfect read for a golden afternoon.

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After learning what Black Out Tuesday was originally intended to be, I too would like to use this opportunity to boast about some black creators and their work that needs more attention.

These are the three books, two graphic novels and one poetry book, that I will be reading this week.

✊🏾 I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina and illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson:

When an off-duty officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, Alfonso Jones wakes up in the afterlife guided by fellow victims of police shootings. Meanwhile, Alfonso’s family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso’s murder.

✊🏾Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore:

Described as required reading for those seeking to be useful allies in the fight for justice, this collection of culturally charged comics tackles race, gentrification, the prison system, racial micro-aggressions, and more with both humor and relatability.

✊🏾Say Her Name by Zetta Elliot and illustrated Loveis Wise:

In this collection of haikus and poems, Elliot creates a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls while also paying tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists championing for the Black Lives Matter cause.

I encourage everyone to check out these books, support a independent bookstore (especially Black-owned ones!!!) and your local libraries. And as always, BLACK LIVES MATTER! And please don’t forget to let your Black joy shine!

- Veronika ✊🏾

IG: @black_girls_lit

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beach reading pt. 1!

Like People in History feels well lived through, fiction very closely aligned to memoir. It’s an examination into the lives of mostly white, cis male, and queer creatives in the late 20th century, so I’m currently thinking about how this book fits into current discussions about welcoming oft silenced within the queer community. That being said, I’m enjoying it thus far.

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rereading lord of the rings has opened my eyes to how wonderfully gay these magical men are.

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in my academic and professional life it’s me and the amelie soundtrack against the world.

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death of the author yesterday... i never know how to feel about barthes.

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Tonight’s mood is going to the beach alone in the dark to sit on some rocks by the water after ingesting enough caffeine to transcend this plane of existence and have a personal conversation with Virginia Woolf

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i miss college so much and i’ve been scrolling through booklr to pretend i can still go to the library and read postcolonial theory and that my school isn’t online for the semester :)

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i always complain about elitist literature but nothing makes me weep gay tears like the unabridged les mis