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What are you reading Wednesday?
Jun. 8th, 2022 10:49 amWhat have you finished reading?
TUKI: Fight for Fire by Jeff Smith (Author, Illustrator) - As always, Jeff Smith is an amazing artist and visual storyteller. The world is really imaginative and i was super disappointed to see that I have to wait for the second part of the story.
All my teachers died of AIDS by Sam Moore - This is a poem/prose about a millennial's feelings on AIDS. And god it hits a lot of the same feelings I have. Its a zine, but this may be the best writing i've experienced in zine format. I almost have a weird survivors guilt about the majority of my queer elders having died terrible fucking deaths. and it set back queer liberation for probably a decade+. great read, but heavy and emotive and man. its just a big fuckin mood.
What are you currently reading?
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library (Editor), Jason Baumann (Editor, Introduction) - This is an amazing book, gathering articles and short memoirs from folks before, during, and after Stonewall. There's a lot of myth and legend surrounding stonewall, and even after reading we are everywhere (the defacto lgbtq+ history book imho) I am still learning a lot. Its full of a lot of antiquated language (transsexual vs transgender, etc) but I'm all right with that. This also should be required reading for all those memes that say gay men were "barely" at stonewall. We can focus on POC transwomen without erasing gay men from Stonewall.
TUKI: Fight for Fire by Jeff Smith (Author, Illustrator) - As always, Jeff Smith is an amazing artist and visual storyteller. The world is really imaginative and i was super disappointed to see that I have to wait for the second part of the story.
All my teachers died of AIDS by Sam Moore - This is a poem/prose about a millennial's feelings on AIDS. And god it hits a lot of the same feelings I have. Its a zine, but this may be the best writing i've experienced in zine format. I almost have a weird survivors guilt about the majority of my queer elders having died terrible fucking deaths. and it set back queer liberation for probably a decade+. great read, but heavy and emotive and man. its just a big fuckin mood.
What are you currently reading?
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library (Editor), Jason Baumann (Editor, Introduction) - This is an amazing book, gathering articles and short memoirs from folks before, during, and after Stonewall. There's a lot of myth and legend surrounding stonewall, and even after reading we are everywhere (the defacto lgbtq+ history book imho) I am still learning a lot. Its full of a lot of antiquated language (transsexual vs transgender, etc) but I'm all right with that. This also should be required reading for all those memes that say gay men were "barely" at stonewall. We can focus on POC transwomen without erasing gay men from Stonewall.
