round-up: 4/25
housekeeping, resources, & tweets
Happy Monday, all!
I have a long post for you today (mostly tweets):
Housekeeping
Resources
Tweets
Housekeeping:
I am so funny. Please laugh.
now that i have a masters degree i would like all the hot girls to call me master. no i will not be taking questions at this time
On sale now:
hiii. im doing mystery boxes again! $50 and i will send u a big box of books / art / clothes / notebooks / etc. or any combination thereof! write what ur looking for in the notes and i’ll curate a box of stuff just for u :-)
I have sizes XS-L, so many good books, awesome posters & queer art, etc.
I have some new zines out now.
Also I am designing t-shirts.
Resources:
Tweets:
cis gays like who lean into transphobia like that Appel guy aren't unaware of the risk they're taking. it's calculated. they've assessed their proximity to cisness, whiteness, & $ and have decided an unpredictable overton window is worth it to garner more power
Academics are on here are like, “yeah I’m first gen—first generation to be a second generation PhD at an Ivy League institution. We are so tired…” and other academics just act like that’s a normal thing to say
Gonna be honest, the yassification of firearms wasn’t on my bingo card for this year.
matt @mattxiv
I have been banned from family scrabble for like six years and last night they finally let me back in, but apparently the ban was just reinstated 💀
I went to a baby group yesterday where the babies had to ‘pick’ toy vegetables and the v enthusiastic group leader said ‘everyone grab an aubergine’ and I said ‘that’s how we got into this mess in the first place, amiright?’ and literally nobody laughed
All, please read "Partition Homes" by the wonderfully talented @SnehaKantaS. We love this poem and were lucky enough to publish it in an early issue. We're so glad to know that it placed in @PalettePoetry 2022 Previously Published Poem Prize!❤️
the woman on the subway who yelled NONE OF THIS IS REAL!!!!!!! NONE OF US EXIST!!!!!!! and then looked me in the eye and yelled GAY!!!!!!! did have a few points to make
Jon Bernthal on method acting: "I guarantee you that making everybody call you by your character name and not showering for eight months was not what Stanislavski had in mind with the method." bit.ly/3ECaBdB
To see lawmakers in Missouri today tell children that their bodies—their flesh—are no longer theirs. That they will only belong to the state and its adults under the law, a state that will wantonly sexualize and assault them as correction *for existing*, is bone chilling.
To see the ubiquitous sexual harassment so many of us queer and trans adults grew up with as our primary experience of childhood now be legally codified with righteous pleasure by lawmakers is…nearly unrepresentable in language in its unrepentant violence.
“Bless me Father for I have sinned. I can’t stop thinking about the barenaked ladies.”
Priest: “And how long has it been since your last confession?”
“It’s been…”
Being able to get through 4/20 while observing Passover demonstrates the resiliency of the Jewish people
since instagram deleted it as "hate speech" ... here is @cat_rontgen 's theory that carrie bradshaw is Autistic
That’s all! Have a good day!
-Despy Boutris