tapestry drop!!
hi i’m aaron and I’m a lesbian fiber artist specializing in macrame! recently i’ve broadened my creations to include tapestries. i like focusing on minimalist designs with pride flag color palettes. i have three more in the works right now but these are the ones i’ve finished so far!! you can check them out on my etsy or instagram (along with a LOT of bracelets!) y’all’s support means the world.
i don't know if anyone reads the longer posts i make, so i'm going to try to keep this short and hope that it encourages more people to read.
these kids are zaen and yahya. they're kindergarteners. they were really excited to start school but i don't think it needs to be said what happened afterwards. now they're trying to help their parents collect necessities in gaza.
i'm not going to write paragraphs appealing to the humanity of those reading it. i know it exists. instead i'm just going to tell you about the family and their goals.
reblog this post. i'm not asking, consider this as me begging on their behalf. reblog this post even if you can't donate. please. and if you can, donate. if you want writing commissions in exchange, i'll do those for you. send me your donation receipt and i'll do 100 words for each €1. whatever prompt you want. they only have €1760 raised; they need €60k. they'd managed to raise around €17k when their previous fundraiser got shut down.
i'm putting the important links below, for ease of access.
thank you from the bottom of my heart for whatever you can do for this family.
Samah ( @samah-h ), verified by Bilal ( @bilal-salah0 ), needs to raise around $4,000 more dollars for the safety of her family. Their home was destroyed; they live in tents. Winter is fast approaching. She and her husband have young children. They need winter clothes, they need food, they need baby formula, they need healthcare. Like everyone, they deserve these things. It is just an accident of fate that most of us are not suffering the way they are. It's literally just a roll of the dice. So if you see this post, reblog and donate.
tapestry drop!!
hi i’m aaron and I’m a lesbian fiber artist specializing in macrame! recently i’ve broadened my creations to include tapestries. i like focusing on minimalist designs with pride flag color palettes. i have three more in the works right now but these are the ones i’ve finished so far!! you can check them out on my etsy or instagram (along with a LOT of bracelets!) y’all’s support means the world.
i fear i want three crewnecks from this collection…
i got them all
And we're live! If you've enjoyed watching me read all these fantastic books by black transfemmes over the last few days, then definitely check up this write-up of all the black transfeminine novelists on my radar and their work ❤️
I realized early in my research that unless you make an active effort to read black trans novels, the number you'll end up reading by accident is probably ZERO. They're so hard to find. Even making it a priority to find these books, this is all I turned up in a full year. And even when you do, most of the most prominent black trans novelists - Solomon, Emezi, Callender, etc. - aren't transfemme. The only book here that I've seen pop up with regularity is LOTE, and even then it's hardly the most common.
TLDR if twenty people walked away from this article with the decision to go buy one of these books, I’ll consider it a success ❤️
@kla1991 A lot of the early black transfemme novelists are very het (Hayes, Anderson, Gordon). I know that Yemaya’s Daughters is pretty het but I don’t know enough about the rest of Edidi’s work to say. Can’t judge for Clark either, nor the books that haven’t released yet.
Shola Von Reinhold’s work is…. Honestly I don’t remember? Sexuality didn’t feel like the focus, or maybe I’m just a little too aspec lmao.
Kuchenga Shenjé’s work definitely has lesbian themes, but I would describe it as most textually bisexual. Same with Roberta Angela Dee, Sasha is super bisexual.
And Nadia Nova’s work is very, very Sapphic.
Actually this needs more context @kla1991
A lot of early work by black trans woman focuses on a phenomenon called DL (Down-Low) Black male sexuality, which was basically where Black men in the early 00s would have loving relationships with women while quietly having affairs with men on the side. Here's a really good book about the topic.
So like, a lot of what Pamela Hayes and Daneisha Gordon especially were commenting on was the relationship - and crucially the differences - between bisexual Black men who engaged in DL activities, and Black trans women who were just trying to live their lives on the day-to-day. The themes often focus on like, the relationships between Black trans women and bisexual Black men, how Black trans women were sometimes seen as like a "safe" option for a DL Black man, and how destructive that could be to the women involved.
So like, a lot of these early texts are very focused on sexuality, but it's much more about gay and bisexual male sexuality and the position of trans women within it than it is Sapphic.
Shared this article on Reddit if folks want to help me spread it around: https://www.reddit.com/r/LGBTBooks/s/N2xhWEETA9
In my heart of hearts, all I want is for some wonderful soul to pop up in the comments with a list of twenty authors that I’ve somehow overlooked.
Realistically I know I’m probably one of the top ten most informed people about this in the entire world.
This is the fastest one of our posts has ever hit 100 views. People want to read Black trans lit! Keep spreading it like the wind 🌬️
i fear i want three crewnecks from this collection…
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I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY The Secret of Us Tour — New York City, New York (Night 3) | October 14, 2024
HEARTSTOPPER ⏤ 3.06, “Body”
the colors of the tortured poets department by taylor swift
s01ep04 | s03e08
Reminder that it's not healthy to stress-watch endless election coverage. It won't change the results. Save your energy and strength for any potential fights ahead.
Other suggestions: watch a movie, take a walk or bike ride, play with your pet if you have one, spend time with a family member, go for a drive, cook or bake something, do a craft, do some early holiday decorating, find a nice place to sit outside if weather allows, read a book, take a bath, organize something, hit the gym, have a hot drink, write a letter, journal, take a nap, go to a museum or park, color or draw, work on a puzzle.
If you have a favorite video or online de-stress activity, feel free to add to this pot.
buck/eddie, buckley siblings supremacy, daniel lives | teen and up | 6.8k words
“I'm just saying!” Chimney lifts his arms in peace offering. “I saw Eddie smile at his phone. And not a “My son is so adorable and I was just sent a picture of him” kind of smile. More like, “I'm in love” kind of smile.” Daniel pauses, closes his locker slowly, and then turns to look at Chimney with a frown etched between his eyebrows. “How would you even know?” And Chimney, because he is the worst person in the world, and his only purpose in life is to annoy Daniel, smirks, and shrugs. “That's the smile I use for your sister.” Daniel hates it here. “Anyway,” Chimney waves it off. “I'm just curious about who Diaz could be dating. Aren't you?” And Daniel isn't. He really couldn't care less… until he does. or: Daniel Buckley never thought that working at the 118 under the painful reign of Captain Gerrard would amount to anything good. He never, ever thought that it would lead him to his long-lost brother. Or that his co-worker Eddie Diaz would beat him to the punch. But alas, here they are.
i guess we feel a lot closer.
nick and charlie through other people's eyes
