Mahmoud Darwish, “Viewpoint,” trans. Fady Joudah, in The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, edited by Ilya Kaminsky [ID in alt text]
oh man, they made you defend your thesis? that's fucked up, they told me mine was perfect the way it is and just gave me the phd
writing a callout post for our cat:
- invading queer spaces (the dining room table)
- refusing to listen to queer voices (us telling her to get off the dining room table)
- harming queer bodies (puts her claws out when you pick her up)
transfemme and transmasc solidarity! (prints available)
joining the war on “pretentiousness” on the side of the pretentious
what you have to understand about kink at pride discourse and the reason people discuss it alongside discussions of transmisogyny and things like drag queen bans is that trans women are seen as sexually perverse, deviant, and engaging in fetish simply by existing as a woman in public, and your arguments of "no kink at pride because of the children" is the exact reasoning given behind banning public displays of transfemininity
btw reblog this
Here you go. The Good Omens S2 Episode 1 title sequence, by Peter Anderson Studios, music by David Arnold. We warned you it was madder than the S1 titles, and it is. I think it's really good.
ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.
AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]
This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.
@lordoftherazzles made a quick guide for ao3 authors to lock all their works at once for registered users only here!
Someone recently messaged me worried I’d deleted all my fic - it’s all still there, it’s just locked to A03 because of this and other skimming instances.
gay shel silverstein be like. it's giving tree
Duke Humphrey Library, Oxford.
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Curious about whether something is actually common if I just happen to have run into multiple references to it.
Feminist scholar Gayle Rubin argues for dismantling the “charmed circle” of acceptable and unacceptable sex as constructed by white heterosexual patriarchy. Intergenerational relationships are placed outside of the realm of acceptability, and those who partake in them are transgressing prescribed social norms according to this framework. Furthermore, Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner contend that heterosexual couples can be queered by acts which subvert and obliterate heterosexual norms in their relational context. Therefore, TLC’s MILF Manor is a queer feminist show. In this essay I will—
midwife? I dare you to call her that again
bro 😭 how tf am i supposed to dress business casual 😭 i’m a faggot 😭
I put up your boyfriend for peer review and... yeah he's published in a journal now. You can purchase 1 month of access for $32.99, or you can log in through your institution for access. Sorry.