PETITION

Really niche things I recommend to research when bored:

Judith Butler’s queer theory

Hofstede’s national cultures

Anne Lister

Creative nonfiction and Gutkind

The queer culture of Berlin in the early to mid 1900s

Stone Butch Blues

Geoff Ryman’s novel 253

A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf

The effect of Ibsen’s play ‘The Doll’s House’ on Chinese feminism

Feminist economics

The history of the term “Spinster”

Lesbian pulp fiction

Queerbaiting in Marketing

Saladin

Islamic cultures and their scientific discovers in the 5th-15th century

Take this isolation as an opportunity to indulge in yourself and your interest but do not force yourself to do things, I know it’s an anxiety fuelled time. Please feel free to add to the list and stay safe!

let me be tired

he lays there

in that dark embrace

with salt coated lungs

and a rotting tongue

he still sees

the sunlight holding

his body and laying

him down so gently

and when the

cold rushes in and

he can do nothing,

that golden boy

will cradle his

body, crumbling at the

touch, and he’ll laugh

one last time

- because he could never outshine a star

introducing johzenji high’s hottest boy band:

bobata kazuma, tsuchiyu arata, terushima yuuji, numajiri rintarou, higashiyama katsumichi

on semi-hiatus: futamata takeharu, iizaka nobuyoshi

do not want to articulate anything!! want only to walk barefoot in a sunlit courtyard with an overripe nectarine in one hand and a deeply battered paperback in the other !

- the book of tea, kakuzo okakura

in this essay i won’t

a compulsive obsession with cleanliness is beaten into us from birth, don’t curse, don’t scream, that’s dirty, don’t wear that, don’t touch that, that’s dirty, have sex, don’t have sex, that’s dirty, you made a mess, clean it up, your brother made a mess, your father made a mess, clean it up, pills instead of a gun, blood’s dirty, don’t play in a dress, you’ll get it dirty, open the windows and boil water with cinnamon and vanilla when da smokes, it’s dirty, older brother not learning he smokes til five years later, he can’t know, that’s dirty, don’t want things, don’t need things, desire can’t be pure, not yours, are you a virgin? have someone else’s hands taken that cleanliness? would that be so bad? of course it would, doesn’t he know there’s no cleanliness left in me to take? he doesn’t care, he’ll take my filth if it’s all i have, as long as he’s taking, as long as it’s all i have left, don’t love her, don’t touch her, that’s dirty, ive cleaned this kitchen ten times, it’s still dirty, da spilled his drink clean it up, he can’t know how bad he’s getting, this house must be clean, clean of him, clean of sin, clean of evidence at least, i’m not clean anymore but i try to be, i have to try, i can’t be dirty, and now it’s not about staying clean but only appearing to be, plato said there’s a class of woman who are receptacles for filth, a sewage system of women at the bottom, and i’m part of that, it feels like it, and now i’m a hopeless cause, i’m tainted, i’m dirty, and i can’t let it spread, what’s around me must stay clean, i can’t infect the world around me, i have to hold the filth inside and keep the world safe, but every woman is this way so what world is there to care for, because no one cares, no one sees, but they don’t want it dirty either, do they.

“Why are you guys being so dramatic?”

We’re being “dramatic” for Breonna Taylor.

For Ahmaud Arbery.

For George Floyd.

For Tony McDade.

For the people who lost their siblings.

For the people who lost their children.

For the people who lost their parents.

For the people who lost their lives.

We’re being “dramatic” because people died. Because people suffered.

black academia

the joy of discovering a new secondhand bookstore and then bringing far too many books home