#lgbtqi poet

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Pride Month! I know it's still May, but this is basically an announcement about the fun thing I'm planning for June that I've wanted to do for quite a while. I can't celebrate pride openly, so I wanted to celebrate it online in verse because I think it'll be fun. And now, I'm inviting you to join in! The Challenge details will be posted June 2nd, the first prompt and general things will be June 1st. Hope to see you there!!!!

[lacrimagodium]

Get to know me

Hey, my names Noah, and my pseudonym is Lacrimagodium. (Please, only call me Lacrima if you're not one of my moots who I talk with). I'm seventeen.

I started this blog to find inspiration, find people who have the same interests as me, to find poets and artists the world don't know about.

Music wise- I listen to almost everything, unless rap music. I listen to musicals, movie soundtracks, classical music (I love Chopin and Tchaikovsky, I prefer Beethoven over Mozart), I also listen to metal my favourites being Ghost and sleeptoken. I'm in love with Conan Gray, Hozier, David Bowie, Queen, The Doors, Radiohead and a lot more.

*if you have any music recs my DM's are opened*

Book wise- my favorite is The picture of Dorian Gray, and I mostly read classics, or old books, (I did read new romance and young adult, I don't like it). My favorite authors are Oscar Wilde, Dostoevsky, Sylvia Plath and Donna Tart and Robert Jordan, Frank Herbert.

*dM's open for book recs too*

TV wise- I love movies, like a lot, I watch movies everytime. favourites are DPS, Fight Club, The dreamers, Kill your Darlings and The Schindler's list.

*dM's open for movie recs*

Fandoms- Mostly marauders, movies and Dead poet society. Also JJK, Arcane, stranger Things... A lot more.

Interests- movies, poetry, writing, books, old fashion, LGBTQI+ . I'm a cosplayer, and I have a cosplay account on Instagram:@_i_am_drowning_

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I giggled at the original post, but then I remembered there's a real reason why. Because there aren't enough spaces. For safety, to meet and build community.

Some reviews of Alexis's documentary:

ALL WE’VE GOT is an inspiring and timely documentary about the power of community and the crucial impact of sharing physical space. Focused on LGBTQI+ women, it offers insights that resonate with anyone seeking to build resilient communities.

At a time when queer and trans individuals are under attack in many parts of the country and hundreds of queer spaces have closed, this film offers an insider’s view of the powerful cultural and social justice work we can accomplish when we come together. It also explores why preserving these spaces benefits everyone.

“In a time of cultural anxiety about the erasure of our Lesbian, feminist, and queer histories, Clements brings alive five sites where progressive collectives subvert brutal capitalism and racist exclusions with joy, shared struggle, respected desire, and gender complexities. For historians, for community activists, for poets, for philosophers of change, for the young and for the old, All We’ve Got is a text, a vision, a challenge, and a pleasure.”

Joan Nestle Lambda Award-winning Author and Editor Co-founder, Lesbian Herstory Archives

“All We’ve Got is a beautiful rumination on community, resilience, and resistance. Unlike so many laments about the disappearance of LGBTQ spaces for women, the film shows us a diverse range of ongoing spaces for queer women. In the end, it is a DIY call to action and a celebration of the creativity, moxie, and determination of LGBTQ women and the inclusive communities they insist upon creating and sharing.”

Jaime Harker, PhD Author and Professor of English Director, Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi

“Using impressive archival footage and intergenerational collaboration, Clements weaves together a story of identity, intersectionality, history, community, and family. Her incisive critique of gentrification examines interlocking systems of power under capitalism that create barriers for these communities, yet her repositioning of these voices and stories offers much corrective hope for a better world in which lesbian, dyke, queer, and trans folks survive and thrive across race, place, and space.“

Red Washburn, PhD Poet and Professor of English Director, Women’s and Gender Studies, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

This works for YouTubers as well lmao

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Céline Sciamma

I bambini sono un pubblico che mi interessa molto perché è un pubblico super contemporaneo. Non hanno la pressione culturale, il background di tutta la storia del cinema, sono in prima linea nel portare avanti idee nuove. Lavorando con loro mi sono resa conto di quanto siano capaci di individualità e di impegno. Giovani e bambini vengono considerati cittadini di seconda classe, come se non avessero idee politiche, io invece credo che siano un pubblico col quale si può essere inventivi, radicali e poetici. È un pubblico col quale si possono sperimentare idee nuove, quindi il pubblico migliore.

Céline Sciamma, regista e sceneggiatrice è tra le cineaste più amate dal giovane pubblico.

Artista visionaria, rigorosa e radicale. Il suo cinema politico, traccia un fil rouge tra sguardo femminile e occhi dell’infanzia.

Nata a Pontoise, in Francia, il 12 novembre 1978, dopo la laurea in letteratura, si è diplomata in sceneggiatura alla scuola parigina di cinema La Fémis.

Ha debuttato come regista nel 2007 con il film Naissance des pieuvres, che esplora i desideri di tre adolescenti all’interno del mondo del nuoto sincronizzato. Conosciuto a livello internazionale con il titolo inglese Water Lilies, è stato presentato nella sezione Un Certain Regard al 60º Festival di Cannes. Nominato per la Migliore Opera Prima ai César 2008, si è aggiudicato il Premio Louis-Delluc per la migliore opera prima e il Prix de la Jeunesse al Festival du film de Cabourg.

Nel 2010 ha collaborato alla sceneggiatura di Ivory Tower e diretto Pauline, uno dei cortometraggi della campagna 5 films contre l’omophobie.

Nel 2011 ha realizzato Tomboy che esplora i temi dell’instabilità di genere e della scoperta della sessualità. Il film ha partecipato al Festival di Berlino e vinto il Premio della Giuria ai Teddy Award, il Premio Ottavio Mai e il Premio del pubblico al Torino GLBT Film Festival.

L’anno seguente ha collaborato alla sceneggiatura della serie televisiva Les Revenants.

Nel 2014, Diamante nero, (Bande de filles) ha chiuso la sua Trilogia della giovinezza.

Con un cast composto da attrici non professioniste, ha continuato la sua indagine sulla complessità dell’adolescenza e la costruzione dell’identità femminile a confronto con le convenzioni sociali.

Nel 2016 ha collaborato alla sceneggiatura del film d’animazione in stop-motion La mia vita da Zucchina, candidato per l’Oscar al miglior film d’animazione nel 2017.

Nel 2019 ha vinto il Prix du scénario al 72º Festival di Cannes e l’European Film Award per la miglior sceneggiatura per Ritratto della giovane in fiamme. Acclamato dalla critica e candidato ai Golden Globe 2020 come miglior film straniero, ritrae la passione amorosa di due donne e la loro lotta verso l’emancipazione.

Nel 2021 ha diretto Petite Maman, una favola sull’amore e sulla perdita, dal punto di vista di una bambina.

Penso che il cinema sia un medium meraviglioso per viaggiare nel tempo attraverso le idee, creare connessioni tra strutture temporali diverse.

La sua ultima fatica, del 2023, è un corto dal titolo This is how a child becomes a poet, presentato alla Ottantesima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Una produzione indipendente che, tra ricerca documentaria e contemplazione, costituisce un viaggio rituale dedicato alla poeta Patrizia Cavalli.

Affascinante è la cifra poetica e politica di Céline Sciamma, nel costruire immaginari che spostano lo sguardo, ribaltando preconcetti, scavando nelle crepe nascoste dell’animo umano, in quel desiderio puro e primitivo dell’infanzia, che tutto accende, represso e silenziato perché fuori norma.

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LGBTQIA+ Rights in Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

(Redirect: LGBT rights in Western Sahara)

LGBTQIA+ people in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (also known as Western Sahara), face legal and social challenges not faced by non-LGBTQI+ residents.LGBTQI+ people face wide range of stigma among the population.

Legality of Homosexuality

Adult-consensual same-sex relationship is illegal in Western Sahara since 1944. The maximum punishment is imprisonment for 3 years.Western Sahara is the only former Spanish colony where homosexuality is illegal.

In 1822, the first penal code of the Kingdom of Spain was adopted & homosexuality was legalized.In 1928, under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera , the crime of "usual homosexual acts" was criminalized in Spain. In 1932, same-sex sexual activity was legalized again in Spain (including western sahara)

During the Spanish Civil War , poet Federico García Lorca was executed by Nationalist forces for allegedly being gay, among other things,but this could not be confirmed. Legal reforms in 1944 and 1963 penalized homosexual activity under "indecent public conduct". In 1954, the Vagrancy Act of 1933 was amended to declare homosexuals a "danger", equating it with pimping. The text of the law states that the measures contained in it “are not appropriate penalties, but merely security measures, put in place with a double precautionary end, with a view to collective assurance and the aspiration to rectify those subjects reduced to the lowest levels of morality. This law does not aim to punish, but to reform.” However, the manner in which the law was applied was clearly punitive and arbitrary: police often used vagrancy laws against suspected political opponents, using homosexuality as a way to circumvent judicial safeguards

Discrimination

There is no law against discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Western Sahara.

Recognition of Gender Identity

Western Sahara has no laws for legal gender change.

LGBTQI+ Rights Associations

Kif-Kif organization advocates for the LGBT migrants from MENA.It was established in 2004.It has not been given legal recognition by the Department of the Interior, but it has been unofficially permitted to organize certain educational seminars.

Summary:

Same-sex sexual activity - ❌

Equal age of consent - ❌

Recognition of same-sex marriages,union -❌

Anti-discrimination laws in employment - ❌

Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services - ❌

Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech) - ❌

Right to legal gender change - ❌

LGBTQI+ people allowed to served openly in Military - ❌

MSMs allowed to donate blood - ❌

[markulyseas]

Treasures, poems by Michael Giacon

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Folk Alliance International Conference 2023 Highlights

MEMPHIS WAS THE FIRST “CITY OF HONOR”

https://folk.org/announcing-our-first-city-of-honor-memphis-tennessee/

By Michael Sangiacomo

KANSAS CITY, MO — The folk music old guard that dominated the Folk Alliance International conferences for the past 35 years has passed the guitar to a new generation that is younger, energized, and mostly female and non-white.

And the kids are all right.

In the BC years (before covid), the annual five-day conference that draws more than 1,000 musicians from around the world was largely the province of aging performers and music lovers.

This year, the beat has changed. Most of the performers were young, female, and non-white lending a whole new energy to the event that was held this past weekend in Kansas City. The LGBTQI community was also well-represented.

Memphis was everywhere, chosen as the “First City of Honor” with Memphis-oriented workshops, speakers, and a slew of talented performers including Amy LaVere, Bailey Biggers, Talibah Safiya, Yella P of Memphisissippi Sound, violinist Alice Hasen and the brilliant Aquarian Blood.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, and actor Valerie June astounded with her keynote speech that said love and hope can defeat hate and fear.

As she spoke about the global crisis, the “technological hacking of the human mind and body” and nuclear war, she abruptly stopped and flashed her trademark smile. She walked to center stage, picked up a banjo, and played a delicate version of “What A Wonderful World” in defiance of the doomsayers.

Wherever she walked she was treated like royalty. Women and children rushed up and hugged her.

She now lives in Brooklyn but said she would always consider Memphis her home.

Like the rest of us, June went from concert to concert to hear the young artists.

The annual gathering is designed to allow music critics, agents, disc jockeys, and concert and festival bookers to get up close and personal with new artists and discover new talent.

It’s also a chance for singers and musicians to strut their stuff in the smaller, intimate venues of the Westin Hotel and gather new fans. There are organized workshops and concerts during the day and evening, though much of the action started at 10:30 p.m. and continued almost to daybreak in hundreds of hotel rooms converted into makeshift music spots. Sometimes a performer played for just one or two people, a memorable experience.

There were a few older performers here, like Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, who acted in more of a non-performing, advisory capacity. Ian received a well-deserved lifetime achievement award. Paxton said he was just there to be inspired by the young people.

Instead of the usual performances by folk icons like Livingston Taylor, John McCutcheon and Eliza Gilkyson, visitors chose between blues singers from Memphis, storytellers from Ireland, brash bands from Australia, and new Americana voices from everywhere,

The toughest challenge is choosing who to see since every concert choice means missing hundreds of other mini-concerts going on elsewhere.

In one, Josh White Jr. seemed a little baffled when his co-performer, 92-year-old jazz genius, composer, and orchestra conductor David Amram asked him to play “House of the Rising Sun” a second time. But he smiled and acquiesced.

Amram impulsively invited young musicians he just met hours earlier to join them. Violinist Rahel-Liis Aasrand of Estonia and percussionist Natalia Miranda from Guatemala nervously joined Amram and White in an impromptu jazz number, as if they had played together for years.

Amy Lavere has a voice much larger than her lithe frame which was dwarfed by the stand-up bass she played. Her voice is at once sweet and powerful and her accompanying guitarist and violinist could not have been better.

Alice Hasen and showed just how versatile the violin could be, switching gears from classical to folk to almost hip-hop.

There was music around every corner. In one room, Brit Shane Hennessey played an instrumental tribute to Chet Atkins. In another, the laid-back Aquarian Blood’s J.B. Horrell played the guitar upright between his knees while his wife, Laurel, sang along.

And the talent goes on and on, stretching out through the halls and into the early morning hours as it expands the definition of folk music far, far beyond the notion of a guy with a guitar.

For more information on the Folk Alliance and how to attend next year’s conference, go to www.folk.org.

[meganelainelovee]

It was almost too easy.

My gramma always treated the golden rule as though it was difficult.

But here you are in front of me, glorious.

Skin Shining with the warmth of the sun,

my favorite constellation spattered over your body.

I see your hair, long,

drapping down that back I love to hold close.

I wonder what a gem like you could possibly want from me.

I can’t guess.

So I do unto you exactly what I want

you to do to me.

[onthebelt]

Welcome to my nightmare blog where I have been reblogging forever and not actually posting anything original in god knows how long. Time to make my spectacular debut back to tumblr. 

Here’s what you’ll find:

-Trauma focused blogging (maybe some other mental health stuff idk)

-D R A R R Y

-Poetry if I deem it worthy

-Rants (On capitalism, life, college, health, idk)

-Anime geeking

[arcdreamer]

Grab your Free copy of "Shadow Frolic"

In case you like some gothic feel of a writing, with some shady shade short stories – that would be your cup of tea. Witchy kind of stories, psycho-kind of stories, all wrapped in poetic feel and really charming.

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The Prompts are Out!

Now, you might have noticed that there are only 27 prompts., counting the first introductory prompt. The other three prompts are blank, meaning you're free to write about whatever your heart desires. In fact, you don't even have to follow these prompts to take part in the challenge. One poem a day, about the LGBTQIAP+ experience. That is all I ask of you. Jumble up the order, write all thirty about love or hair, make a thirty stanza poem over the month, it's all upto you. In the spirit of pride, there are no rules, only guidelines for those who want to follow them. I genuinely hope you'll have as much fun writing for this challenge as I had making these.

Be Gay, Do Crime and Write Poetry. Yours Truly, Eventide

The Awakening™ New Beginnings Discovery Rejection Reflection Skin/Body Representation Swimming Upstream Robot Sin Hate Fear Understanding Beauty Hair Part of a whole Celebration Identity Validity Idols Queer Spaces Community Love Advice for the past Wisdom for the future Acceptance

[hdrussell]

I published a book. Not because I want to be famous but because I want other LGBT peeps to have something to call their own. Two stories and some poetry are between the covers. It does exist and is for sale on Amazon but it can be bought cheaper through me via paypal. Message me or please, look up "Lilika and Other Journeys". Buy it for yourself and/or for the queer person in your life who wants to see themselves reflected in media. As an indie author I can only ask for that and hope it makes a positive impact. (Also, my editor is Todd Barselow, hence it's not just some bullshit.)

www.hdrussell.com

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when you wanted something to happen for so long and it finally did, everything else that surround it becomes a blur; it gets addictive for it gives you a sudden kick of euphoria and extraordinary bliss but what you did not notice is how that can easily make you repel from one of the ideal consequences in life by encapsulating the chance of losing a soulmate and a best friend all at once.

M | 308

Visual: Baka Bukas (2016) dir. Samantha Lee

[writelikefools2021]

The Ooo in You - Fantasia Coxxx - day 2

I know there’s an o An oo Even an ooo In you

There’s just too much Too much of them Enveloping, eclipsing Need a canal of schlemm

You need a beige stage Surrounded in black velvet With a small stool I’ll be your zealot

There’s an ooo Tapping at the back of your teeth You just need the space And a myelin sheath

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