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Meadow Creek House, Seattle, USA by Kelly Kilpatrick

#ph

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Sometimes I see a respected mutual in my notes and remember they follow me and I'm like. Should I apologize for what I'm doing here. But they did choose to be in my house

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Found slide: Peekaboo! Naarm Melbourne from the Swan Street Bridge over Birrarung Yarra River, through a narrow lens, circa February 1959. Photo by a member of the Radford family

#ph #naarm mention

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HAPPENING NOW: passover seder from our comrades in columbia's liberated zone/gaza solidarity encampment. this encampment is a profoundly religious space. we've seen muslim protesters praying multiple times a day, a christian communion was held, and multiple jewish prayers/celebrations have taken place. solidarity is a beautiful thing, palestine will be free.🖤🇵🇸

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AND IF YOU SHOOT YOU BETTER HIT YOUR MARK!!!!!!!! JOAN OF ARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I saw someone in the tags of one of my posts say "wow i need to get on the coyote train" and I was like THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE, why? Because I love their work and have books to recommend:

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman - this one has many different authors for each chapter and a couple chapters are by Ivan if I recall correctly. Great starter book to introduce someone to butch/femme identities, especially because there's a variety of perspectives when it comes to those identities. This one addresses kind of, one of my few critics of Ivan which is not addressing racial issues much, if at all, or disability, which in a way, it isn't their place to speak I guess, but this book does have perspectives from poc that are masculine of center and femmes of colour, aside from disabled femmes.

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote - I adore this book. It talks about being butch, understanding oneself as butch, talks about growing up gender nonconforming, it talks about family perception, the struggles of going through life as a gender nonconforming person, about being a blue collar butch and how it can feel sometimes out in the field, how they were treated. Overall, an incredible book though some parts can be a bit rough.

Missed Her by Ivan Coyote - this one is more geared towards relationships (not just romantic, but it touches on that); loss; reflections on life, trans-ness and people's perceptions on that and what is butch; and how being who you are can change the world around you even in small ways and what will be there looking ahead. Very heartwarming read.

Care Of by Ivan Coyote - I haven't completely finished this one as it changes slightly from their usual way to write. This one is more prompt and response, since they use this one in the context of the pandemic, when they're stuck at home to answer emails, letters and messages they've gotten throughout the years and those can be very moving. You get to see the feedback and their interactions with the people that write to them. And as they write things with a more specific direction.

Gender Failure by Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon - is here as an honourable mention, not because I think it's inferior to the books previously mentioned, simply because I haven't read it myself, so I can't vouch for something i don't know, but the times I've seen people talking about it, it seemed like a good book as well and i know Ivan is quite skilled in discussing gender.

Ivan Coyote has a very subtle and inviting way to discuss all of these topics that I really admire and their story telling is kind, light-hearted without running away from important subjects.

If you've read Ivan Coyote and enjoy their work, especially in Missed Her, I can't recommend enough My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, there's a familiarity there to me in the way they write and their story telling, though Barrie Jean Borich writes in a more continuous way than in short pieces like Ivan does.

Regardless, both really great authors, in my opinion.

#reading list #i've read persistence + one in every crowd (not listed here / seems aimed more towards older teens than adults) i did enjoy both :)

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"the empathetic hunger descends" is such a bar like evoking the image of a circling vulture finally coming down to feast on the carcass of your dead relationship. hearing "finally a new taylor swift breakup album. i'm so sad for her but i'm so excited for new songs/to find out what happened" knowing the past 7 years of your life will be picked through with a fine tooth comb before you've even had a chance to fully process and understand it yourself

#after initially trying to stay private but then entering this very public spectacle with matty + travis #as if knowing this kind of speculation won't be escaped. especially when the dating life scrutiny started while she was quite young #in general the lyrics to how did it end are so sharp. something public consumption of women artists' private lives also #taylor swift

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im watching the new heartbreak high season why is there a new needledrop every five minutes

#also i forgot about the setting fire to the car last season

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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hey my workplace is imploding and will likely be closed for at least a week and a half + i am probably about to get screwed out of getting my tips for the last couple weeks, i won't die but i am quite stressed about it because i am not making anywhere near enough money as it is rn even without all of this shit. so if you like my writing or like whatever then ⬇️

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hipness purgatory

indie sleaze

global village coffeehouse

supergraphic ultramodern

memphis-milano

internet awesomesauce

pacific punk wave

utopian scholastic

frasurbane

curly girly

pastel southwestern

mission school

#oh this is VERY fun #pacific punk wave for me

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper

50 ¼ x 42 ¼ in. (127.5 x 107.2 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number2106.69

Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

NGA

#art

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Romeo and Juliet, Teatro alla Scala (Italy). ♡

#r+j #aaaaaurgh

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Dance Yrself Clean | LCD Soundsystem

break me into bigger pieces so some of me is home with you wait until the weekend and we can make our bad dreams come true

#music #lcd soundsystem

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Hello my fellow dykes, we have officially become visible ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

All sillies aside, please consider donating to Emily Gwen or sharing this if you can! Link

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happy lesbian visibility week

#FRED FROM ANGEL???????????????

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ok ill bite who is taylor swift