missboomissquick

[missboomissquick]

Meta, you can take my filters, but you cannot take my freeeedom!! Here is last week. Cameos by @donnahallway @evayoung_ @kenziecoulee @paco.may @ladygaga Beau and lots of blooms. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdhpUKRsxZ_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[missboomissquick]

[missboomissquick]

[missboomissquick]

My weekend plans.

“The historical and absurdly quotable (Oh Mary don’t ask.) 1968 Mart Crowley play The Boys in the Band will be prancing back into our lives starring the cast of the Broadway revival on NETFLIX on September 30.” -  http://www.back2stonewall.com

[missboomissquick]

it’s that time of year

hugh dancy pumpkin season babey

[missboomissquick]

Eartha Kitt, Phillipe Halsman

[missboomissquick]

Seek help.

[missboomissquick]

fuckmeallthewayup, Colin Farrell

[missboomissquick]

Me watching trump leave the White House (in handcuffs) on January 20, 2021.

[missboomissquick]

Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962), Untitled, 1952. Ink on paper, 33 x 39.5 cm.

[missboomissquick]

By: Jo Rodgers

[missboomissquick]

Fandoms are fierce, dedicated, and organized. Their loyalty works two different ways. Modern fandoms are unparalleled in the arts of signal boosting on social media, racking up record sales and video views, and staging gestures of appreciation for their favorites. Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé’s “Savage” remix reached No. 1 this week in part because of strategic streaming parties scheduled throughout the days following the song’s release by Beyhive accounts like BeyLegion on Twitter. Showers of adulation from thousands of loving admirers can go to an artist’s head if they’re not careful. They can get a little too cozy, and they can get themselves in a lot of trouble. Last April, Lizzo hit at Pitchfork writer Rawiya Kameir’s evenhanded review of her album Cuz I Love You, and Lana went after NPR pop critic Ann Powers for what was a fairly reverent review of the singer’s exquisite Norman Fucking Rockwell album. Both albums charted well, with aggregated review scores in the 80s indicating nearly unanimous praise; both artists caught flak for fixating on the lone less-than-fawning review of their work. What they wanted, it seemed, was worship. Conditioning them to want it was, perhaps, a mistake. For all its great banter and interviews, Nicki’s Apple Music show “Queen Radio” has occasionally used its reach to sic fans on people who anger the rapper. That kind of heat isn’t easily quelled. Rev the kids up, and they only stop when they’re tired.

Fandoms are a place for people to find comfort and forge valuable friendships, but any organizing force capable of creating as much noise as artist-centric interest groups have been able to in the last decade also holds great destructive power. Now, toxicity in music fandom is a years-old practice.

[missboomissquick]

The significance of June 19th and Tulsa, OK

The Emancipation Proclamation outlawing slavery in the U.S. passed January 1, 1863. Enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, didn’t find out they were free until June 19, 1865. Juneteenth is the commemoration of when all enslaved people became free. The story of Juneteenth: https://daily.jstor.org/the-story-of-juneteenth/

On May 31, 1921, the Greenwood section of Tulsa, OK, also known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by an agry mob of white people. Thirty-five city blocks went up in flames, 300 people died, and 800 were injured. The story of the devastation of Black Wall Street: https://daily.jstor.org/the-devastation-of-black-wall-street/

This day and this place are not a coincidence. 

[missboomissquick]

[missboomissquick]

Vanitas Still Life by Dutch School, 17th Century.