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random-poetry-account · 8 months

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#poetry #all the things im not #doc luben #14 lines from love letters or suicide notes #charles bukowski #mahmoud darwish #f. scott fitzgerald #sally rooney #conversations with friends #ryan o'connell #david wojnarowicz #a memoir of disintegration #sylvia plath #three women #mieko kawakami #heaven #hanif abdurraqib #a fortune for your disaster

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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

#david wojnarowicz #close to knives: a memoir of disintegration #poetry #poem #quote #literature #text #writing #words #spilled poetry #spilled writing #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #dark academia poem #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry #dark academia writing #dark academia

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makingqueerhistory · 10 months

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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

#queer books #queer history #lgbt history #honestly #libraries are a massive resource in terms of preserving and uplifting marginalized narratives #and as a community #that has been so very excluded from both fictional and nonfictional narratives #this is a great way to reclaim and care for the stories that have been surpressed for so long

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need."

– Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, Book by "David Wojnarowicz"

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fearbehere · 1 year

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i’ve wasted my life running away from myself

a breath of life, clarice lispector / 14 lines from love letters or suicide notes, doc luben / the archer, taylor swift / close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration, david wojnarowicz / portrait of fyderyck in shifting light, richard siken / how to never stop being sad, dandelion hands / holly warburton / the torn up road, richard siken / soda, nothing but thieves / extracting the stone of madness, alejandra pizarnik

#web weaving #web weave #taylor swift #richard siken #feariginals

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legallybrunettedotcom · 1 month

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David Wojnarowicz, from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

#words

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cassiopeia-lost · 1 year

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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home Kaye Donachie, Design Crush Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Henrik Uldalen Geloy Concepcion, Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did Alice Oseman, Radio Silence Franz Kafka, in a letter to Milena Jesenská Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out Geloy Concepcion, Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration Geloy Concepcion, Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did Sketch of Max Ginsburg, Piedad de Guerra Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

#web weaving #web weave #a little personal perhaps #Spotify

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chillpotato · 1 year

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- David Wojnarowicz, from 'Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration'

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uaravsh · 3 months

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"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need."

- David Wojnarowicz, "Close to the Knives : A Memoir of Disintegration"

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queer-is-future · 8 months

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apologies if this has already been discussed

but in all the fantastic metas I’ve seen discussing the halves of faces for Louis, Lestat, and Armand in the s1/s2 promo posters, many have pointed out that we have no promo poster for Daniel despite him being an important character (it’s not his time yet in the story)

but he DOES have a very interesting image on the cover of his so called “brutally honest” memoir of a man (is it him or someone else??idk) whose “brain half” is covered with that weird grainy image you used to get on vhs tapes when they malfunctioned in the player or had their content erased

[and sometimes if you paused in the right place or played the tape slowly you could see some of those lost images]

and there’s a face of someone hidden in the black part by the dude’s shoulder who is looking directly at us

and that vhs malfunction thing continues on the back to Daniel’s author image who we know has memory loss around the original interview (lost of theories as to why)

so Daniel’s memoir has the same half face as the promo posters but is it him in that picture or someone else? who is the face in the background? curiouser and curiouser said alice.

[also is the roman weiss thing a nod to Marius?? idk.]

“Everything would go all right for months as Daniel felt compelled to move from city to city, walking the pavements of New York or Chicago or New Orleans. Then the sudden disintegration. He’d realize he had not moved from his chair in five hours. Or he’d wake suddenly in a stale and unchanged bed, frightened, unable to remember the name of the city where he was, or where he’d been for days before. Then the car would come for him, then the plane would take him home.”

The Queen of the Damned, Devil’s Minion

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sageandscorpiongrass · 10 months

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On Breath, On Change.

#poetry #web weaving #web weave #web weaving poetry #prose #literature #poemblr #parallels #webweaving #happy pride. this is a little about the Transgender. to get terfs OFF my blog. git.#༺✿ web weaves by basil ✿༻

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asoftepiloguemylove · 2 years

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"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

#david wojnarowicz #close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration #poetry #poem #words #writing #quote #david wojnarowicz poem #david wojnarowicz poetry #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia poem #dark academia #dark academia writing #aesthetic #spilled writing #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry

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makingqueerhistory · 3 months

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Transgender Books For Your Libraries

I have said this before, but right now requesting and reading queer books from your local library is important. I want to take a second to say there is a direct attack against the transgender community around the globe, and it's worth your time to request and read transgender books. So, here are some transgender books to request:

(Some links are affiliate links and the money goes to Making Queer History's research fund)

People Change, Vivek Shraya

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler

The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw

Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure, MX Sly

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity, Thomas Page McBee

The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya

Dark and Deepest Red, A. M. McLemore

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Fantabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi

Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman

Disintegrate/Dissociate, Arielle Twist

Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life, Jeffrey Marsh

A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, Sarah McBride

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, Erica Ridley

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World, Kai Cheng Thom

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film, Tre'vell Anderson

Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon

#queer history #queer books #libraries #lgbt books #transgender books #trans books

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texaschainsawmascara · 2 years

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The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir / unknown / The Man Who Fell To Earth / The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947 / My Soul is from Elsewhere - Rumi / Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey / Corruption: Poems; “The Bardo of the Mind in Contemplation” - Camille Norton / "The One Who Always Goes Away", The Stinking Rose - Sujata Bhatt / Tokyo Decadence / 4.48 Psychosis - Sarah Kane / 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue) / Ein Lebe - Anton Chekhov / Girl in Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow / Creep - Radiohead / Paris, Texas / Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration - David Wojnarowicz / Carnival of Souls / Mary - Vladimir Nabokov / The Island - Victoria Hislop / 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami / The Fiery Pantheon - Nancy Lemann

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demonsceous · 1 year

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"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be there. I guess i wanted to be nowhere, i wanted to listen to my brain talk of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the knives A memoir of Disintegration

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steveyockey · 1 year

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David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991)

#thank you fellow car hater. I love you #david wojnarowicz #sorry for being so so bad at taking photos lmao

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