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What writing gets posted this month?
Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
4 (36.4%)
Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
2 (18.2%)
Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
1 (9.1%)
Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
1 (9.1%)
Flights of Reality (the Cursed City)
0 (0.0%)
Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
1 (9.1%)
The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
2 (18.2%)
The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
0 (0.0%)
LB Economics (essay)
5 (45.5%)
Cultiples #1 Afterword (essay made of AAAAAAH)
1 (9.1%)
Rage Against the Regime (LB autobio)
3 (27.3%)
What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?
Cult Comix
2 (22.2%)
Death Watch
3 (33.3%)
How it Was, How It Is
0 (0.0%)
2012 hospital sketchbook
0 (0.0%)
2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
1 (11.1%)
2014 AllFam sketchbook
0 (0.0%)
Protection
3 (33.3%)
2015 early Biff sketchbook
3 (33.3%)
Seductive Beast (Mori/Rawlin silliness)
4 (44.4%)
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After her father’s kingdom is seized by his power-hungry brother, Rosalind and her cousin Celia flee in disguise, seeking refuge in the Forest of Arden. There, they find new freedom and wisdom about love, family, community, and acceptance. Shakespeare’s lush romantic comedy As You Like It celebrates the joys and follies of human nature and the beauty of creating one’s own sanctuary, even in the face of great tyranny.
Currently Reading:
[bff book club] Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan (with Foreword by adrienne maree brown & Introduction by Tourmaline) (2022) -- the chapters are generally short, and the book is long, so we'll be reading this low-key forever.
Books that GR thinks I am Currently Reading but which are kind of on hiatus:
Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships by Jessica Fern, with David Cooley (2023)
[August 31 OOYL book club] The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (2024) -- a Lambda Literary finalist for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
Reading Next:
The move from second Thursday to first Tuesday meant less time to read this, and I wasn't super grabbed by the idea of the book, and church "Biblical Weirdos" Zoom got pushed out a week so the last session was gonna overlap with this, so I don't think I'll attend the book club meeting and also don't think I'll read the book.
This sure is a book. The GR blurb:
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collective.(Lol, Pedro Páramo was a book I low-key vetoed for DEI book club.)Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay--playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized--has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator trade stories--moments of joy and oblivion--and resurrect lost loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?
Inspired by Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pedro Páramo, Voodoo Macbeth, the book at its own center and the woman who created it, oral histories, and many more texts, images, and influences, Justin Torres's Blackouts is a work of fiction that sees through the inventions of history and narrative. An extraordinary work of creative imagination, it insists that we look long and steady at the world we have inherited and the world we have made--a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.
"Let me explain. The first thing people say when they see me is, “Oh my God, you’re so short.” This is terrible. I am slightly under five feet. This means that if I go to buy grown-up clothes in the store, everything is too long. Everything. Every skirt, every pair of jeans, it doesn’t matter what I pay or where I shop. So, I have pinking shears. Everything I own, I pink with the pinking shears. It doesn’t make sense for me to go to Kohl’s and buy $9 jeans and then send them to be hemmed for $30. In New York, that’s what it costs to hem. So I gave up on having anybody hem them. And I’m having trouble threading my sewing machine. So pinking shears do everything."