#LGBTQUI

[blackqueernotables]

Michaela Coel: the first black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special.

[arcimboldisworld]

Édouard Louis - Monique s'évade.

Édouard Louis - Monique s'évade. #text #frankreich #lesejahr2024 #editionsdeseul #france #lesen #literatur

Seine sämtlichen Veröffentlichungen haben mich bisher begeistert, ich mag diese offene, ehrliche Klarheit seiner Texte. “Monique s’evade” ist für mich der erste Roman von Édouard Louis, den ich im Original auf Französisch gelesen habe, mittlerweile ist “Monique bricht aus” auch auf Deutsch erschienen und Louis ist damit auf Lesereise unterwegs…. Continue reading Édouard Louis – Monique s’évade.

[k333llyy]

just get a blog mr. president

literally when was the last time you looked at the White House dot gov website?

I was watching the "Till" movie on Peacock and OBVIOUSLY the true crime buff in me is going to look up the actual case details, photos, autopsy, etc. The first search tells me what I need to know, so I click on the link and it takes me to a 404 ERROR page on the White House website.

They've taken down the history that made us learn, they took away the readily available Constitution, they've taken down the Spanish version of the website.

Censorship of our REAL American history and mistakes are being erased. Im terrified to know what they're doing behind their closed doors.

If you are not afraid right now, please please educate yourself before it's too late. Go find a copy of the US constitution. Your state's constitution.

Please be safe, protect your friends, family, and document everything.

[asleepies]

Trans Zine Summer?! Is this the motivation I needed??

I have decided to enter my zine/diy printing era this summer :3

[1800forgetmenot]

The audacity of it all,

He figured he carried the weight of it all upon his mountainous shoulders. He wished he could settle into being a they. But he/they could never imagine having to correct someone on his/their preferred pronouns. Coming from the background he/they came from, a family of seven, strict Roman Catholics. Guilt and all. He/they has only recently become comfortable enough to paint his/their nails and go to work. Baby steps for him/them. They yearn to just be. No more self discovery, no more hurdles, no more feats of strength, just a cool maintenance phase.

[artisamaptothejourney]

This was a pretty early figure drawing, done around 1998 or so, around 11x14 inches I think. I sold it a long time ago and so I'm not sure of some of the details.

https://www.darrenengleman.com

[thoughtfulfangirling]

It's almost halfway through the halfway month of 2024, so lets reblog my reading progress.

I am well surpassing my reading goal so far this year with well over 40% of my reads being nonfiction. Again, I'm trying to pack the front end with nonfiction because I don't want to be trying to balance my reads come October. I want to be able to read whatever takes my fancy then, so that's when this percentage really might start to shift.

Because so much has been nonfiction, my "moods" heavily skew toward 'Reflective,' 'Informative,' and 'Emotional' with the next three following being significantly less common, with those being 'Challenging,' 'Adventurous,' and 'funny.' Thanks Murderbot =P Probably

Most of my physical books have been under 300 pages. Thanks memoirs and other very targeted nonfiction topic books XD

My audiobooks have largely been in the 8 to 16 hours long categories. So still, while not the shortest category, I haven't particularly been doing long reads.

My top 'Genres' category far outpaces any of the others, that being 'History.' The next three that follow and aren't too far from each other are 'Literary,' 'Politics,' and 'LGBTQUI+'

Annnnd, only 37% of my reads have been physical books. Probably better than previous years? It's hard to skew that one since there's just so much more opportunity to listen to Audiobooks. I can't just replace audiobook time with physical reading time the way I can replace nonfiction for fiction. But hey! That's not nothing!

2024 Reads

Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!

You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson

Meru - S.B. Divya

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]

Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen

Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide

Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke

The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.

This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan

The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides

Finding Me^ - Viola Davis

Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte

Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells

The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler

Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam

Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells

The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds

The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans

Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin

The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry

Network Effect~ - Martha Wells

Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Medical Apartheid:^ The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A Washington

The Assassination of Fred Hampton:^ How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Jeffrey Haas

The Death of Vivek Oji - Awaeke Emezi

Mutual Aid:^% Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) - Dean Spade

Passin' Through - Luis L'Amour

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Histories of the Transgender Child^ - Jules Gill-Peterson

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curiosu Man^ - Mark Kurlansky

When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival^ - Juliane Koepcke

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir^ - Akwaeke Emezi

Current nonfiction / fiction percent: 56% / 44%

Currently reading: Woman: The American History of an Idea, about to begin Lud-in-the-Mist, listening to Emma at bedtime

Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club

My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that. THIS WILL BE HARD FOR ME! Not because I don't enjoy nonfiction but because I enjoy fiction a lot more and have a lot more practice reading it. Haha Also for me, I am in circles where I'm just going to have more awareness of fictional books that I'm likely to enjoy more so than nonfiction. I'm kind of hoping that this years journey will change that a bit too!

Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...

Being Human:

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Bowling Alone

Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...

Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended

The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...

Dear Senthuran

DisneyWar

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...

Finding Me (Viola Davis)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...

The Food of a Younger Land

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...

The Glass Universe

The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...

The Great Influenza

Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman

The History of Ireland

The History of Scotland

The History of Wales

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Indifferent Stars Above

In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...

The Indifferent Stars Above

The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...

A New World Begins

Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous...

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty

Radium Girls

The Road to Jonestown

Paper: Paging through History

People's Temple

Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec

Salt: A World History

Say Nothing

Sea Biscuit: An American legend

Searching for Black Confederates

This is Your Mind on Plants

Unmasking Autism

The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why

Watching the Tree / found all by my little self

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...

I will actually add to this list as I get more recs and whatnot. And I still have some coming which I ordered from Thriftbooks. Once those are here, I'll add those. I'm a little sad there aren't more memoirs, but there's plenty of time for that yet! This is already 37 books, and given lately I've been reading about 70 (nonfiction may slow me down tho), these should give me plenty of ability to reach my 40% goal. Now it's just a matter of if I do it XD

[maybewererotten]

im an exclusionist and think you need dysphoria to be trans how many blocklists can i get on

[thegayagenduh]

if you've never heard of Hayley Kiyoko at all, not even once throughout your whole lesbian/gay life, are you actually even lesbian/gay??

[sockparade]

hope in time’s own future

I’ve been hearing people wonder out loud about when things will go back to normal. Mostly folks like me who have relative margin in their budgets, the ability to work from home, and the freedom from panicking about how their bills will be paid while the world is wonky.

The thing is, I think many people have been unaware or have been able to turn a blind eye (myself included) to the fact that, with all the coming layoffs, store closings and the general devastation in multiple industries (transportation, service/gig, hospitality, energy, retail, etc.), we’re going to be confronted with just how awful “normal” already was for so many people in our country. The people unhoused, people living paycheck to paycheck, people crippled with debt, people who are uninsured and not able to afford the healthcare or medications they need, people underemployed because of discrimination or documentation... the list goes on.

Over the past two weeks I’ve been seeing things that I never thought I would see: debt and mortgage payment freezes, evictions temporarily banned, inmates being released, new guidance for police on who should be arrested/detained, companies offering hourly workers paid sick leave, the government discussing giving cash aid directly to citizens, broad support for free COVID-19 testing and vaccines, etc. (related: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/coronavirus-tsa-liquid-purell-paid-leave-rules.html)

While healthcare workers are on the frontlines of the health crisis there is another set of heroes who are fighting on the frontlines of policy and ideology right now.  I’ve been so inspired by the community organizers who have been helping people reimagine and build what a noncapitalist society could look like. I’ve been seeing grassroots mutual aid spreadsheets, individual efforts to offer support on Nextdoor, and folks radically giving what they can (sometimes just direct cash through Venmo or cash app, sometimes delivery of resources, sometimes a check-in call) to people they’ve never met who are in need.

I’m reminded of two Toni Morrison quotes I read last year in her collection of essays and speeches, The Source of Self-Regard.

“Don’t let anybody, anybody, convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.” (Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address)

And then,

“What will we think during these longer, healthier lives? How successful we were in convincing our children that it doesn’t matter that their comfort was wrested and withheld from other children? How adept we were in getting the elderly to agree to indignity and poverty as their reward for good citizenship?”

“If scientific language is about a longer individual life in exchange for an ethical one; if political agenda is the xenophobic protection of a few families against the catastrophic others; if religious language is discredited as contempt for the nonreligious; if secular language bridles in fear of the sacred; if market language is merely an excuse for inciting greed; if the future of knowledge is simply “upgrade,” where else might we look for hope in time’s own future?” (The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations)

This gofundme campaign started by Amita Swadhin, “COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund for LGBTQI+ BIPOC Folks”, is an example of something that gives me hope. (H/t: Eesha Pandit) This is the kind of stuff I want to dream about when we make it to the other side of this pandemic. An organized effort to prioritize the most vulnerable among us. Transparency in leadership. Trusting the requests for need from the community and not resorting to means testing or any other prerequisites. Generous donations from those who are able.

I saw this tweet from Jerry Lorenzo earlier tonight. 

“the biggest loss in the end is if we come out on the other side of this unchanged.” 

I felt that in my bones.

Please consider contributing to the gofundme if you can. And even if you can’t or don’t want to, the campaign description itself is well worth the read.

[not-easily-brxken]

Help needed!

I've got to go off the usual Star Wars topics here and ask for y'all's help with a project!

If you wear a binder or bind in any way, please do me a favor and complete this questionnaire! It is anonymous and safe, and the results will be used in a presentation I have to make in order to get my physical therapy assistant license!

This is in no way being used to give medical advice or analyse anyone’s binding types, styles, or reasoning, and each question is as generic as possible in order to keep everyone safe and happy. 

My main goal is to bring information to a medical board that is largely in the dark on these issues and start a movement towards assessing and treating issues caused by unsafe binding. We need educated allies in the health field, and your participation is the first step!

Thank you so much, and stay safe, friends!

[mangymoosemongrel]

It’s been a long time. So... here’s my face.

[whamblamcreations]

Some of the stickers available in the shop!

[artisamaptothejourney]

Another early drawing by Darren Engleman included in the book "One hundred artists of the Male figure", by Eric Gibbons. Colored pencil on paper. SOLD. Go to www.darrenengleman.com to see my current and available work

https://www.darrenengleman.com

[valerieullmerromanceauthor]

Survivors by Amy Marsden

Survivors by Amy Marsden

Title: Survivors Series: Survivors, Book One Author: Amy Marsden Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 08/16/2021 Heat Level: 1 – No Sex Pairing: No Romance Length: 88500 Genre: Paranormal Horror, LGBTQIA+, paranormal, bisexual, post-apocalyptic, dark, medical personnel, scientist, military Add to Goodreads Description It’s Jennifer’s 24th birthday and she planned to spend it having fun with…

[queefmagazine]

Quest’anno, in questo mese di Giugno, in tutto il mondo, si celebrano i 50 anni da Stonewall. 50 anni di orgoglio e lotta, di resistenza e speranza. A Roma la celebrazione è doppia. Quest’anno infatti ricadono i primi 25 anni del Roma Pride.