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This year has been rough. It’s the first time in my life I’ve held down a job for over a year, and a full-time, labor-intensive job to boot, where the only time I can sit down is on my breaks or lunch. It’s hard to write when you’re working in the middle of a global […]
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[This post is a fragment. Only the title was saved to my drafts. —SQL 2023-04-11]
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I’ve been having a discussion on tumblr that started with a post I saw about how some people who ship Mako and Korra have been calling it a queer relationship. I said that I saw why people were upset about that, but I also understood the relationship as queer because I’ve experienced bisexual erasure in […]
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I know you’re being polite, but: stop ma’aming me stop calling me a lady or a gal or a girl stop assuming that I’m a woman stop referencing me with she/her pronouns How I experience gender is separate from how I present myself physically. Gender is invisible, and, the more comfortable I am in understanding my […]
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I have a fascination with the act of naming. Roman Mars and Graham Coreil-Allen do a fantastic job of summing up naming’s power and allure in the episode “Names vs The Nothing” of 99% Invisible: Roman Mars So it all comes back to a name against a nothing. When you give a nothing a name, […]
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[This post was saved as a draft. It was a copy of a response to a message on Tumblr and shows the discourse at the time around the concept now known as “women and nonbinary.” I still experience both fluidity and alienation around “women’s spaces,” and this post shows nascent thoughts about the continuing problems […]
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These are the words we needed when we were growing up inside of the heart of American empire. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012 and, to my knowledge, there were no zines like this in the works when I was there. So I’m elated to see students from my alma mater organizing now as radical Asians and […]
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In thinking about dieselpunk’s aesthetics and historical context and how to engage with that without glorifying war and Nazis or relying on Orientalist tropes, I plan on going through a list of media and articles to set a baseline for dieselpunk as it’s currently expressed and discussed. I’ll be adding to this regularly.
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When I say “disorienting”, I mean it in the traditional sense of the word: I want us to lose our bearings, to stray from the paths we know. I want us to be lost. I want us to deconstruct and dismantle the familiar and unfamiliar. In disorienting us, I want to offer us the opportunity to reclaim our […]
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