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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-11-17 07:45 pm

I was under the impression these things don't go bad

We fought the health insurance and we didn't lose! "We won this round!" [personal profile] spatch amended apotropaically, and then did a Dr. Claw impression. Have some links.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world. "When I was growing up, we didn't have art on the walls but there would be these calendars with gods and gurus everywhere; I've made Tate Britain a bit like a contemporary temple, but not so much to do with anything religious. "

2. This pair of posts on queer history seemed to go together. Not unrelatedly, Francis Lee has once again been interviewed about Ammonite (2020) in a way that makes me desperately want the film to stream where I can see it.

3. Being a person who cares about Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance and Paula Vogel's Indecent, I am going to do my best to catch Alastair White and Clara Kanter's The Drowning Shore, premiering this week as part of Compass Presents' Oracles in Sepia. I imagine others on my friendlist may feel the same. "In Scots and Yiddish." That makes me hope A.C. Jacobs would have approved.

4. I have no experience of Harry Styles beyond his acting in Dunkirk (2017) and therefore no opinions about his music, but I feel strongly that "because I think it looks cool" is an aesthetic to be encouraged.

5. A nice reminder that respite does not equal complacency.

The Leonids are peaking tonight. I hope it will be clear enough to appreciate them.
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2020-11-20 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)

The queer history links were very educational, thank you.

we have to be flexible–to be QUEER–with our genealogies because queer genealogy doesn’t WORK the same way genealogies do for other marginalized identities. most of us (not all of us!) don’t have queer parents who taught us how to be queer. we don’t have literal queer ancestors; and honestly even if we do, we might not recognize them on their own terms.

disabled people have a similar need to reach across, forward and back, since so few of us have a family identity.