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@TierraWhack LFG

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Thinking about sophomore year of high school when Paul (🚬) called me kaffir boy on our way to our cars after school, feigning ignorance as to the impact of the word. “What? You are.” The third person with us didn’t understand what he said or what it meant. Subtle knife.

[Sapphic Vortex @SapphicVortex]

Queer History Fact: during the AIDS crisis, many lesbians became frontline caregivers and activists for gay and bi men when society and institutions abandoned them. Their leadership and solidarity are part of why the ‘L’ now comes first in LGBTQIA+.

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@Tyler_A_Harper From the CSU system https://t.co/dpscPMUojU

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@cashewrising I would have a whole class on lines and door policies and how they evolved. Another on digital/physical media. Maybe a third on drugs/alcohol.

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@sociohoeologist Women in Love by DH Lawrence; Zami by Audre Lorde

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happy pride munth

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Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles.

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All of the (queer/fem) artists in the roll call of Le Tigre’s Hot Topic:

Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Kuttin Kandi, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tami Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sisler,

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Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi Vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane DiMassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Schrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerrard,

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Hyphenating “on-line” is such a strange choice. It’s not in any contemporary style guide. All caps “ZERO” and no apostrophe in “yall” are dissonant with “sum total” and “full of fully.” My guess is this was a ‘humanized’ PR/legal template with interpretive wiggle room.

[Stop! That! Train! @stawpthattrain]

A note from Director Adam Shankman.

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@AfroJediii 🤍

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@MediumSizeMeech @SunshinesDeluxe He is LaKeith Stanfield’s character in I Love Boosters

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@michaelokdey Suicide Kale

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@Criterion @thatonequeen Stayed for the Dorian Corey lore

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@Criterion @thatonequeen You had me at Network @thatonequeen

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@cashewrising I would have a whole class on lines and door policies and how they evolved. Another on digital/physical media. Maybe a third on drugs/alcohol.

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@cashewrising The steelman version of this could be very cool. Maybe starting at the tail end of disco and do an overlap with punk and house. Paradise Garage. Vagina Creme Davis / genderfuck drag. Susanne Bartsch parties. Have one session on regional subcultures.

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“It seemed I was always wondering, trying to understand the position I occupied in someone's life and making decisions based on my abstract findings.”

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One more tangential snippet, same interview, talking about how people are “raced.” Wilkerson covers the construction of race in “Caste,” showing the serviceability for unifying Europeans under one moniker and enslaved Africans under another. 6/6

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Very interesting! First draft thoughts: Gay and Black are both constructed identities. Black identity predates gay identity (not gay activity!) by ~300 years. Sexuality (biological? corporeal? innate?) is more indelible, or foundational, for the author than Black-ness. 1/6

[Debra Vance @_Lomzi]

I'm gay before I'm Black.

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Here’s Toni Morrison (1993, Charlie Rose) talking about Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation and her refusal to give up “one drop of melanin” to achieve success. 5/6