had the abbbbbsolute pleasure of interviewing Michaela Jaé (Mj) for The Cut! click to read about her two new shows that premiered on the same night last week, the bittersweet victory of being The First to win something, and what it’s like to meet lenny kravitz thecut.com/article/michae…

I was very grateful to be invited up to Wesleyan to listen to a stunning medieval gymel (Stuart and Myles you are famous forever) and discuss pure critical relation with Merve Emre nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

'good apples' in these outrageously violent highly professionalized national institutions live their entire lives in a kind of baffling doublethink about what they are doing. last time i was sent to jail the cop asked me how my day was going and said she liked my earrings

yessss this book is absolute fire, i still quote the bits about gay politics in the Venceremos Brigade all the time. and also the parts about Alpine County. actually just the whole book, you should really read it

The person who coined the phrase was Tede Matthews, an anti-imperialist, socialist feminist drag queen in San Francisco. It was said in the 1977 documentary Word is Out and was a critique of capitalism’s gender socialization and consumerism. Which RuPaul subsequently commodified.

🏳️‍⚧️📽️ I love how this continues to get out there. QUEENS AT HEART (1967) was restored by the Outfest 🌈🎥 UCLA Film & Television Archive Legacy Project (with the support of Andrea James) from a 35mm print I unearthed in the 1990s. You can watch the whole AMAZING film here: youtube.com/watch?v=X__VKN…

The Trans Hashira Omg … well I do love trans people 😳

Fun Anthony Comstock fact: he helped keep one of the earliest U.S. trans memoirs (Jennie June's Autobiography of an Androgyne) from being published! In 1918, when she finally got it published, she included what he said to her in 1900 about queer folks ('inverts' in his words)

[me after enduring two days of intensely dehydrating diarrhea] you know, this is a great reason to finally pick up Gabriel García Márquez

sick girl breakfast

keep thinking about the 70 year old crooner at the jazz bar tonight who started mumble-singing over the soft piano interlude 'in my day kids didn't have the iPad or any of this high tech stuff. we had the LABIA. we used to talk to women'