Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸

no sé (Quisiera Quedarme Quieta, @Dharma_Books)

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Subí la presentación de Quisiera Quedarme Quieta con @LuciaMariaTA a YouTube para quien tenga algún interés, no le hice cortes, salió como salió. Después de las presentaciones y fallas técnicas, empezamos a hablar en forma en el minuto 7:45 aprox. 🌴 https://t.co/L70UFxpVj5

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

El viernes un compañero dijo que los fines de semana se van un parpadeo, y apenas lo dijo hace un minuto.

[triquis @triquis]

¿Backrooms? Más bien Quién te manda, la película @Lilian

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

libraries literally aren't just places to obtain books for free. they're some of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.

[The Mel Jar @the_mel_jar]

For Pride Month, here is Freud’s famous kind, thoughtful, generous, brilliant, and beautiful letter, which he wrote in English, to an American woman and mother inquiring about her homosexual son, and asking: could Freud help him?

The reason we have this letter is because the mother was so moved and grateful that years later, she shared it with Alfred Kinsey, famous American sexologist.

She shared this with Kinsey with a brief note enclosed in which she described Freud as a “Great and Good man.”

I know that others may disagree, but I must insist that psychoanalysis does not and should not tolerate homophobia or transphobia. To work psychoanalytically requires us to accept that sexuality and gender expression comes in all forms.

Freud thought of himself as a scientist, and he was not ideologically driven.

He came to these conclusions near the end of his life and career honestly because he understood what the mind is, and he was, at all times, a clinician and doctor who wanted people to learn to live comfortably and happily enough in their lives, without shame.

If he could get there in 1935, then all of us should be able to arrive to this understanding in 2026.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💝

(PS I mildly edited the line breaks simply for readability on the internet. The link to this letter in the original is in the next post in this thread. 💌📝👇)

April 9th 1935
WIEN IX., BERGGASSE 19

Dear Mrs. [Erased]
I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact, that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him.

May I question you why you avoid it?

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development.

Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.) It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime and cruelty too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

By asking me if I can help, you mean, I suppose, if I can abolish homosexuality and make normal heterosexuality take its place.

The answer is, in a general way, we cannot promise to achieve this. In a certain number of cases we succeed in developing the blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies, which are present in every homosexual; in the majority of cases it is no more possible. It is a question of the quality and the age of the individual. The result of treatment cannot be predicted.

What analysis can do for your son runs in a different line. If he is unhappy, neurotic, torn by conflicts, inhibited in his social life, analysis may bring him harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed.

If you make up your mind he should have analysis with me—I don’t expect you will—, he has to come over to Vienna. I have no intention of leaving here. However, don’t neglect to give me your answer.

Sincerely yours with best wishes,
Freud

P.S.
I did not find it difficult to read your handwriting. Hope you will not find my writing and my English a harder task.

Dear DR. KINSEY:
HEREWITH I enclose a letter from a Great and Good man which you may retain.
From a Grateful Mother

[Ana Álvarez @tiempaire]

Te amo, pensamiento crítico desde Latinoamérica

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

*liminales

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Mis chats con @triquis, verdaderamente compartimos la misma neurona (poniéndonos de acuerdo para ver Backrooms porque lugares limítales y terrors son nuestros terrenos).

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

@s_ruizvelasco @SerSpuncan A todos DEBERÍA gustarles. 🤖

[Dunc 🇮🇪 @SerSpuncan]

You can tell a lot about a person based on whether or not they like intergalactic by the beastie boys

[Jacobin @jacobin]

In a historic milestone of capitalist inequality, Elon Musk's net worth is now over 1 trillion dollars.

If you earned 1 million dollars per hour at work, it would take you about 500 years to reach Musk's new net worth.

[Bill Pourquoimec @BillPourquoimec]

Audience note from test screening of VIDEODROME, 1983

[Pank @jenesaispank]

Releo mi cuaderno verde japonés de la cirugía anterior y no puedo creer cómo pude escribir en medio de tanto dolor. Me reconforta leerme escribiendo, como podía. El derecho a la libertad de moverse, que apunté el día que me quitaron una sonda.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Son buenísimos, y muy chismosos, dudo que ella hubiera estado de acuerdo en que se publicaran. Siempre lo digo: el único autorizado para revelar sus propios diarios es le diarista mismx.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Lo que me dio envidia al leer los diarios de Virginia Woolf, además de sus periodos de intensa creatividad (bip-bip-bipolaridad), que además produjeron OBRAS como Al Faro, fue constatar que hubo un tiempo en que los escritores vivían de escribir.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Qué misóginos, @NetflixLAT
-Corran a su copy.

[Netflix Latinoamérica @NetflixLAT]

Netflix, por $139, entretienes a la suegra un ratito.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

@jenesaispank Ahora mismo la estoy prendiendo. Ojalá pudiera darte más consuelo, querida. Pero mis oraciones van para ti siempre.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

KING Taehyung
#solosoyunachica

[𓂋 @archivefortae]

OHMYGOD KIM TAEHYUNG

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Algún día volveré al podio de top performers, mientras tanto estoy en el podio de Kahoot (cultura general nivel niñes, y aún así fallé una).

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Falso, y aún así increíble.

[Lilián del Carmen 🇵🇸 @Lilian]

Palabras que nunca creí leer juntas.

[La Jornada @lajornadaonline]

🇲🇽 La cantante y compositora estadounidense 🎤 Sabrina Carpenter camina junto a un acompañante, quien porta un atuendo de Hot Dog, para llegar a la calzada de Tlalpan, rumbo al estadio Ciudad de México, previo al #Mundial2026.

#DíaEnImágenes | 📸: Jair Cabrera Torres