#jackie kay

[typewriter-worries]

love and laughter

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz ( @harry-stylse ) | Sappho 31, Trans. Anne Carson | The History of Love, Nicole Krauss | I Have Just Said, Mary Oliver ( @liriostigre ) | Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin | Her, Jackie Kay | The Way You Look Tonight, Jerome Kern

#already made one like this but there were so many more to add! #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe #benjamin alire sáenz #anne carson #sappho #the history of love #nicole krauss #mary oliver #giovanni's room #james baldwin #jackie kay #jerome kern #webweaving #web weaving #parallels #dark academia #light academia #classic academia #lovecore #romantic academia

[blackqueernotables]

Jackie Kay: the first Black poet to be appointed Scotland's national poet.

#Jackie Kay #lgbt #black lgbtq #black lgbt #black queer notables #black lgbt women #lgbt women #black queer women #black queer firsts

[roseillith]

talking black: lesbians of african and asian descent speak out pg: 175-176

#txt #talking black: lesbians of african and asian descent speak out #jackie kay

[ardent-reflections]

When the day breaks, I will be there to break it. When the new moon rises, I'll rise with it.

Jackie Kay

#jackie kay #poetry #literature #spilled thoughts #poems and quotes #poem #words #quotes #lit #life quote motivation #motivating quotes #inspirational words #beautiful words #spilled words #wordsnquotes #wordswordswords #quote

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Joss is Transgender and uses he/him pronouns!

#joss moody #trumpet #jackie kay #tumblr polls #fandom polls #transgender #he/him #books #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character #finished

[smokefalls]

We sat and stared till our eyes filled like a glass of wine. I did it, the thing I’d dreamt a million times. I undressed you slowly, each item of clothing fell with a sigh.

Jackie Kay, "Pounding Rain" from The Adoption Papers

#Jackie Kay #The Adoption Papers #quote #poetry #2023 reads

[amuseoffyre]

I ended up having a think last night about my time at university. We were just coming out of the section 28 era in Scotland and I’d been an incredibly sheltered child thanks to super-religious family. I’d started branching out on knowledge when I got my own library card so I knew fragments and pieces of stuff, but there was a big old void that I couldn’t quite understand and I knew it was important.

When I went to uni, I did a double whammy of English with Film&Media and in my very first semester, before section 28 was repealed, we were given a reading list that included my first conscious encounter with anything trans: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet. It’s a fascinating and heart-breaking and uplifting novel inspired by the life of Billy Tipton, a trans Jazz musician who was outed after his death.

I remember reading it and realising this. This was the void. This was the thing I had been circling around but couldn’t put a name to. It took me a long, long time to actually figure myself out in full, but that book shone a light on the blank spot and saying “this is what you’ve been trying to understand”.

I’ve kept a copy of that book ever since and 20+ years on, it still resonates with me so very much.

#books #queer history #jackie kay

[aaronsrpgs]

book I finished / book I started

#books #jackie kay #joanna russ

[moviesandmania]

THE RED TIDE MASSACRE (2023) Reviews of eco-horror creature feature

‘The beach is closed’ The Red Tide Massacre is a 2023 American horror film about a female TV reporter who becomes the target of a mysterious sea monster. Directed by veteran genre filmmaker John A. Russo (Night of the Living Dead 1968) from a screenplay written by Palmer Edward based on a story by Joe Majestic. Gavin Peretti directed the Simi Valley Unit and Joseph M. Setele directed the Florida…

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#2023 #Eco Horror #film #Gina Vitori #Jackie Kay #John A. Russo #Michael Paré #monster movie #review reviews #Rich Sands #Sam Schweikert #Susan Elle #The Red Tide Massacre

[literarymemories]

#books #literature #trumpet #jackie kay #audio post

[poem-today]

A poem by Jackie Kay

Baby Lazarus

When I got home I went out into the garden Liking it when the frost bit My old brown boots And dug a hole the size of a baby And buried the clothes I'd bought anyway, just in case.

A week later I stood at my window And saw the ground move And swell the promise of a crop; That's when she started crying.

I gave her a service then Sang Ye Banks And Braes Planted a bush of roses Read from the Bible, the book of Job Cursed myself digging a pit for my baby Sprinkling ash from the grate.

Late that same night She came in by the window My baby Lazarus And suckled at my breast.

Jackie Kay

#jackie kay #scottish poet #baby lazarus

[0mega-x]

What I gather from my english literature classes is :

- Caesar is the best character and I honestly rooted for him (Antony you are fool and Cleo.... wow you can manipulate)

- I didn't even see where the fuck Lucy and George's romance start and how is better and more natural than Lucy and Cecil's. Freddy seems cool, though.

- I like Jackie Kay's poems.

#mes blogs #antony & cleopatra #a room with a view #darling #shakespeare #em forster #jackie kay

[glrw-glit]

#books #lgbtq+ rights #culture #jackie kay #colm tóibín

[sadoldjonny]

Important Books of LGBTQIA+ History!

#books #lgbtq+ rights #culture #jackie kay #colm tóibín

[litbadbitc]

Childhood, still

#memory #childhood #jackie kay

[smokefalls]

she’s my child, I have told her stories wept at her losses, laughed at her pleasures, she is mine.

Jackie Kay, "Chapter 6: The Telling Part" from The Adoption Papers

#Jackie Kay #The Adoption Papers #quote #poetry #2023 reads