Hello it is Sunday and yesterday was Saturday! My neighbors had fireworks for some reason and they scared my cats, but per usual, my robot roommate came through. Not to be like a shill of big tech, but as a person who lives alone, very little makes my life feel more tech free than being able to talk to a robot and have it do what I tell it to do. It even sang me happy birthday when I woke up on my birthday! A roommate has never done that for me.
Okay, while you read about the good news, I’m gonna go feed my cats treats for breakfast to make up for last night.
+ Hopefully including tons of facemasks and hand sanitizer, Paris held a Pride parade and thousands came out for what turned out to be, in true historical Pride fashion, hella political.
+ Speaking of Pride, we can’t let it go back to a corporate-sponsored event, which Natalie highlighted earlier this week.
+ The songs our queer elders boogied to in the 70s and 80s.
+ Queer folks in Ecuador are exploring gender identity through drag.
This metamorphosis, from one character to another and back is what’s so striking about transformismo. It isn’t just that Rentería changes into Dareyeska, or Macías into Destiny, but that they also have to transform the other way around. One complies with the arrangements, rules and expectations of society. The other creates a parallel world of fantasy and possibility where they can decide and rule on their own terms. These split realities aren’t necessarily at odds with each other, but rather emerge as adaptations and strategies for queer life to flourish on difficult terrain. Keeping these two worlds neatly separate, however, isn’t always easy as Rentería and Macías can attest to. But “easy” would be missing the aim of transformismo which, after all, is breaking free from all the ways being human is confined and constricted.
+ Wales has a new LGBTQ bookstore.
+ Want a documentary about LGBTQ friendship? Check out Jack and Yaya.
+ Hmm, lesbians will turn anything into a dating app including…TikTok?
+ Seven queer folks share the beauty rituals getting them through the pandemic. Speaking of, let me go wash my face.
+ Some Dartmouth sororities rewrite their constitutions to include nonbinary people. Cute if we ever go back to school.
+ Teens and the gender binary.
+ My ancestor was a suffragist.
Okay weirdos and friends, I’ll see you soon. Love yourselves, love your communities, love your enemies into being nice, I guess? I don’t know, still working on that one. You’re always on my heart and mind.
Okay but use something else as a dating app, not TikTok, which is basically a Trojan.
elaborate?
not a user, so i’m not familiar with the app ux. have a glancing awareness of the censorship issue.
In Manhattan Playwright Dr. Larry Myers (40 years a university professor) and now social activist is finishing “The Marsha Johnson Mirror.” Myers is close friend of Randolf Wicker (with whom Marsha lived 12 years). His is an informed voice resonating on the icon s significance. He directs The Playwrights Sanctuary (endorsed by the late dramatist Edward Albee) which sponsors & mentors newer &younger dramatists & poets.
I have been taught by Dr. Myers, and as a published writer, can attest to his preternatural ideas and craftsmanship. If he is reading this, he should know that a former student, named Rico, will always hold him in high esteem.
Father Laurence can testify to Dr Myers gratitude compassion service humility..hes funded all for 30 years with his own savings
playwright dr myers has reignited
DRAMATIC WORKSHOP II WHIXH NOW INCLUDES
THE TOM WILLIAMS THEATER THINK TANK
AS IN TENNESSEE WIllIAMS
IN HOLLYWood myers latest alchemical protest sos drama
is 12 states of ‘dont say gay”!!
oodOD MYERS IS STAGING AN IMPORTANT PROTEST OF THE SCAREY DONT Sy gay in front of the la academy of arts and sciences
in nyc dramatic workshop 2
announces an sos squat stage work
‘lou reed renegade”
another rebel epic by ld myers ph d
myers is completing “LOU REED RENEGADE”
he was BETTY REED’acying partner
Lou’s wife at the time
Lesbians WILL turn anything into a dating app lolol
Happy birthday. If you have a good device you can choose the Issa Rae voice, which I have. Previously John Legend was an option too & sang happy birthday beautifully. Haven’t tried Issa Rae yet.
I can’t believe that two years ago we had just one queer bookshop in the UK and now with the opening of this one and The Bookish Type in Leeds we’re going to have five! Now I’m going to have to make it my mission to visit them all, which will make me very happy and my bank account less so.
mardi gras nola 2022 myers phd became the spirit of the MArdi graS 2022