'...the way I bring my hand to your jawline is my first language.'
lover, where do you live?
'....to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart'
the thin line
Don't Take the Money - Bleachers / unknown / Alone With You in The Ether by Olivie Blake / Here is Home - Ryn Weaver / Everything - MUNA / The King's Men by Nora Sakavic / We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal / Raya and Namaari fanart
'...the way I bring my hand to your jawline is my first language.'
lover, where do you live?
'....to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart'
the thin line
Don't Take the Money - Bleachers / unknown / Alone With You in The Ether by Olivie Blake / Here is Home - Ryn Weaver / Everything - MUNA / The King's Men by Nora Sakavic / We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal / Raya and Namaari fanart
on the unspoken gay history
Michael Lassell: How to Watch Your Brother Die - Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell: Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s - Richard Siken: Little Beast - Joan E. Biren: Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians - Sappho (translated by Anne Carson): Fragment 147 - Joan E. Biren: Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
i need richard siken and ocean vuong to do an i only listen to the mountain goats esque podcast where they consider the meaning of life and i will listen to it on repeat for the rest of my life
anyways if you’re as upset about the first kill cancellation as i am, here’s a list of sapphic books and books featuring queer girls to check out! for those i haven’t read, i’ve heard they’re worth reading, so please check out any of the books on this list!!
PLEASE REBLOG WITH YOUR OWN IF YOU HAVE RECS!! i’m looking to add more sapphic books to my tbr and i know i’m not the only one
I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
IRL by Tommy Pico
Chelsea DesAutels, “Maybe You Need to Write A Poem About Mercy,” in A Dangerous Place
When I see ai art, I always check the hands.
And almost always...there are six fingers. Seven knuckles.
A missing thumb.
And yet, as long as they have big tits, people be fawning over it like omg this is peak art.
Yeah. Peak art made by a bot and stolen from actual artists that still somehow can't figure out the exact number of fingers and hands a human being has.
Guys I'm not kidding. Look.
COUNT THE FUCKING FINGERS.
This week, we bring you A Wreath For Emmett Till, a Coretta Scott King Book Award and Michael L. Printz Award honor book published in 2005 by the Houghton Mifflin Company and written by award winning poet, author, educator, and translator, Marilyn Nelson. Nelson is the daughter of one of the last Tuskegee Airmen, and keeping with the family tradition of making history, Nelson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Robert Frost medal, served as Connecticut’s poet laureate from 2001 to 2006, and recipient of many other honors and awards.
In the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, Nelson shares the harrowing story of the 1955 lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till. Nelson was nine years old when this atrocity occurred and bore witness to the international outrage stemming from the case’s lack of due-justice. This notoriety led to Emmett Till’s mother Mamie Till Mobley becoming a key civil rights activist. Meant to be used as an educational tool for young adults when covering the topics of racism and hate crimes against Black Americans, Nelson creates a lyrical masterpiece of 14 poems that make reference to many other famous poets’ works, which our copy has a full set of notes on. The ending poem is an acrostic, made up of the first letter from every individual poem’s title, spelling out “RIP EMMETT L TILL”. Each sonnet’s title can be read as a line within the individual poem and can also be read as its own poem when compiled.
Emmett Till’s story kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, paving the way for Rosa Parks’ and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s boycott of the Montgomery bus system through Mamie Mobley’s mobilization of the Black Chicago community. Marilyn Nelson’s poetry, alongside illustrations by Swiss artist Philippe Lardy, asks us to reflect on where we are today and to remember how we got here:
This country we love has a Janus face: One mouth speaks with forked tongue, the other reads the Constitution. My country, ‘tis of both thy nightmare history and thy grand dream, thy centuries of good and evil deeds, I sing… .
A perfect selection for anyone wishing to learn more about the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.
View more of our Black History Month posts.
–Isabelle, Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley
Marilyn Nelson
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]
poetry recommendations for november 🌼
We are accepting new members again!
Are you interested in joining a book club and reading books with wlw characters? Then consider joining the WLW Book Club discord server.
We are currently in between books and will be choosing a February book soon! We want this to be a safe and positive environment for everyone, so there are some server rules you should be aware of if you are considering joining.
Big server rules:
If you are interested in joining the server or have any questions please send something to this blog or to @palmettofoxden
Thinking about making a lit blog but in the meantime I’ll just scream at my followers bc I think everyone should read these books:
- this is how you lose the time war
- her body and other parties
- in the dream house
- if we were villains
- last night at the telegraph club
- everyone in this room will someday be dead
*books with great love stories and plots that don’t just revolve around them. (with links!)
