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May 21, 2025: Finished reading: The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown 📚 Except for Arena, it feels pretty much schtick to me. I guess that makes sense for most …
May 19, 2025: There was one personality, and one hidden beneath it. Now, two are standing next to each other, one cheering the newly emerged one on. How will this …
May 15, 2025: Daniel Brook's book on Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld There’s a fascinating book coming out by Daniel Brook, called The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin. Wow, so, over …
May 13, 2025: I quit all the Meta properties, never did TikTok and quit twitter the day before South African Apartheid Hitler-wannabe Musk took it over. I’ve never …
May 12, 2025: A little bit of trans joy in last night’s sunset. 🏳️‍⚧️
May 11, 2025: Sometimes you just burst into tears. It’s hard. I want to say it’s no big deal but it hits crazy hard and then just passes. Like waves on the ocean.
May 11, 2025: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski Finished reading: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski 📚 A really good collection of poetry. I love poetry, and esp. trans poetry. I’ve feel a visceral …
May 11, 2025: Blogging vs journaling I’ve been doing both a bunch lately and I keep blurring the lines between something that could be inner-inner monologue vs inner-outer monologue. I …
May 6, 2025: Finished reading: The T in LGBT by Jamie Raines 📚 A good read but pretty basic. As others said, would be great for an introductory text. And, someone …
May 5, 2025: Canadian Authors Rock The last few years, I’ve been on a kick of Canadian authors. I didn’t just wake up and say, hey, let’s read some Canadians, even though there’s no …
May 4, 2025: Check out Alter Boys, a Perth, Australia band. Their songs in Alice Maio Mackay’s trans / queer horror films (Bad Girl Boogey and also So Vam) are …
May 4, 2025: Finished reading: I’ve Got a Time Bomb by Sybil Lamb 📚 One minute I’m like ok, this is insane, scattered and I’m going to not finish it, and then one …
May 2, 2025: Carnage for Christmas by Alice Maio Mackay I finally was able to finish watching the most recent movie (of five) from Alice Maio Mackay that’s streaming on Shudder (and AMC+). It’s another …
Apr 29, 2025: Books don’t turn people queer or trans. Books only show us that we’re not alone. There is power in finding out that there are other people like you in …
Apr 27, 2025: Imara Jones podcast on techno-fascism I listened to a fantastic, if also terrifying, podcast from Imara Jones’s TransLast program. It was on The Rise of Techno-Fascism. She interviewed the …
Apr 24, 2025: Bad Girl Boogey 🎬 Watched Bad Girl Boogey last night. It’s Alice Maio Mackay’s sophomore major release. The acting was amazing, the film was beautifully shot, the …
Apr 23, 2025: Wow. This is so wonderful. 🏳️‍⚧️ I got this from Sinéad’s Bluesky post
Apr 23, 2025: Appropriately Cute After my last post, it seems too appropriate that sleepwear like this exists. “You are allowed to change”. Could there be anything more pretty on the …
Apr 22, 2025: Thinking back and moving forward The more I travel down this exploration, the more I remember from my early childhood. I’ve always had these feelings. As a child, I think I embraced …
Apr 17, 2025: Small steps of joy Exploring means taking steps. I’ve known for a long time who I am but am only expressing it more openly and more widely recently. It’s amazing how a …
Apr 15, 2025: We are not going back. We’ve been here for millennia. We are here now. We will be here long after they are rotting in the ground. 🏳️‍⚧️
Apr 13, 2025: Ron Glass was a god: Barney Miller & Firefly
Apr 8, 2025: What a fun tumblr site for those interested in vintage computing.
Apr 6, 2025: Finished reading: The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick by Laila Lalami 📚 OMFG, too soon. This book was beautifully written but hit way too close to …
Apr 3, 2025: I am going to have to do a post, probably a long one, on Alice Maio Mackay. Her movies are amazing.
Apr 3, 2025: I’m absolutely blown away by Delilah Bon. Her music, and more importantly, her lyrics are so powerful. I first heard her song “Dead Men Don’t Rape” at …
Mar 31, 2025: Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025! 🏳️‍⚧️ We are strong, we have always been here, and we aren’t going anywhere.
Mar 30, 2025: Finished reading: Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney 📚 A very fast read, finished in one sitting. I liked how she intertwined journal entries with …
Mar 29, 2025: Didn’t Finish: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami 📚 This book started out very slow, but then I got interested, but then it just wasn’t …
Mar 29, 2025: Happy bday, Lord Derby. Your Iliad is still one of my favorites, after Caroline Alexander’s & Emily Wilson’s.
Mar 25, 2025: Tattoo is finally, I think, happening! And maybe two. They always say you can never stop at one after you’ve had your first. I’m planning my second …
Mar 24, 2025: Finished reading: Holding Wonder by Zenna Henderson 📚 I liked her book The Anything Box” much more. But, I did enjoy “You Know What, Teacher” and “Loo …
Mar 23, 2025: Finished reading: Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi 📚 A stunning work of joy and sadness, reflection, becoming and unbecoming. I don’t …
Mar 23, 2025: Finished reading: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico 📚 An okay read that I took out from the library. It felt a little lifeless to me but not so much …
Mar 21, 2025: I added a bunch of books to my read shelf for 2025, but since I did it in bulk, I didn’t have a chance to post each review. So, here’s a quick rundown …
Mar 21, 2025: I read The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes in 2025 and gave it 3 stars A good read that I picked up at one of my favorite local …
Mar 21, 2025: I read Listen Listen by Kate Wilhelm earlier this year and gave it 3 stars. After having finished “The Clone” which Theodore L. Thomas co-wrote with …
Mar 19, 2025: Finished reading: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite 📚 Beautifully written, very fast read, love generation ship stories. Plot a little thin but a joy …
Mar 17, 2025: A new dawn … that simple little phrase can mean so much. New joys or new tears. New fears or new hopes. But, if you do it right, always exploring. I …