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Kae Tempest’s Nice Idea
I wanna stay in bed with you all day.
Lord of the Butterflies
Such a beautiful collection of poems about (queer) life in America.
If you can’t stand for right, you just stand for wrong.
When I first heard Can’t Stand by John-Allison Weiss, the song hit different.
You or Someone You Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huffam4qf4Y I’m just going to go out on a limb here: You or Someone You Know by Worriers is my favorite record of the year. Such a perfect punk/power pop record – I listen to it when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m sitting in the sun on my balcony, when I have to …
Onsind – ImmatureFeminist punks ONSIND released Immature, the first single off their upcoming album We Wilt, We Bloom. It’s about, like, millennial dissent and stuff. (All proceeds from the bandcamp single go to Salvage Collective, supporting women (cis, trans & intersex), trans & non-binary survivors & activists)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Big Beautiful Day is the first single off PWR BTTM’s second album Pageant (out May 12, 2017) It’s exactly the kind of guitar & glitter & self-empowerment anthem I love from them. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
ALL THE DEAD BOYS LOOK LIKE ME
A poem by Latinx poet Loma, which they wrote in the aftermath of Orlando, expressing grief, outrage, frustration and love in the queer poc community. The piece connects the personal and the political, and puts the Orlando attack in context of the other forms of violence (recent and historic) that target the community.ALL THE DEAD …
You don’t have to get normal to become legitimate. Judith Butler in an interview with Regina Michalik (LOLApress) in 2001.
Women are supposed to be the ones on the balcony, not the ones down below professing their love. We don’t think the female romantic is romantic. We think she is a predator. We think she is desperate, unstable—Fatal Attraction, the cougar, the spinster, the troublemaker. But deep emotion in this age is a radical act. …