Send Me A Literary Genre

Been up since 6:46. It’s 7:41. I am in bed streaming the blue light directly into my un-spectacled eyes.

Absolutely perfect tweet

They get it

Baffling

die

tell me you know nothing about drag without saying you know nothing about drag

Uneven as fuck eyebrows

In the words of Kid Fury, that’s a question for you to answer, sir, not us.

A woman who has the confidence of a girlboss but the competence of a cringe failwoman

@yamujiburo

and that's why we love her

How legends are made.

I think you mean *not* made

He’s Ken’s Buddy… All of Ken’s Clothes… Fit Him…

Barbie worked a lot and her and Ken had an agreement

Quite the agreement it seems…

(Is your small joy missing here? Tell us in the tags!)

Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important

Remember when the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” RE gun violence and #thisismylane trended as a result?

One of the tweets I saw was a surgeon who’d taken a picture of her OR, having just finished surgery on a young man who’d been shot. Blood. Everywhere.

This bloke retweeted her, mentioning that he worked as a cleaner in a hospital and had had to clean up stuff like this and worse.

Surgeon replied to him (and went up *greatly* in my estimation) and, despite living in different countries, thanked him for his hard work.

I can’t find the tweets sadly, but hers went something like;

“Without a clean and sterile operating room to work in, my team, our skills and the best medicines in the world are next to useless. You are doing invaluable work, without which my work would be impossible.”

WITHOUT PEOPLE DOING THE CLEANING, SOCIETY WOULD GRIND TO A HALT WITHIN DAYS

Every garbage workers’ strike shows it.

Give them the respect they damn well deserve.

I am nicer to the janitors than I am to my “peers” because I come from a long line of janitors and maintenance people and service workers.

We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and they're already trying to purge us from libraries.

If other people are interested I'll make this a priority

Speaking as someone with a background in archives, stuff like this does already exist. No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating an archive and making sure it's accessible and searchable and actually preserves things for the long time (especially digital things) is actually a huge undertaking. Show some love to these already existing collections and maybe even consider contributing. There's the Digital Transgender Archive off the top of my head. I know more I just have to think.

The History Project, based in Boston, is an LGBTQ+ community archive that's existed for decades. Many of their collections are digitized.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives, based in Brooklyn, is similar.

The Digital Public Library of America covers a great many topics, but they also have LGBTQ+ stuff.

I'd also recommend searching "lgbtq+" and "libguide" in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.

Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where you're writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.

In general, I'd really recommend searching around to see how you can support existing museums, community archives, college and university archives, etc that specialize in LGBTQ+ history and media local to you, whether that's in your same town or regionally.

You are not alone! People are working on this and some of them have institutional budgets!

But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests you've been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. That's all part of queer history and that's the stuff these archives and museums are made of.

Label your stuff carefully, make backup copies, and get to know your local organizations!

We're also working on building an open access archive and actively looking for content contributions! https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/hiv-aids-the-arts/

I have been on the record for a very long time saying that JSTOR is my one true love.

sissy hypnosis mantra

And that’s the bottom line.

I want a pizza with caramelized onions, mushrooms, and roasted garlic with white sauce. Drizzled with hot honey and maybe a lil truffle.

Not quite pizza. Hot honey salmon with roasted baby broccoli and a brioche roll.

American moment

(as I sit at my desk)