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Out of Touch

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[talking to myself] no, WE have identity issues

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Update on the "first queer film" project

This is an update post to the project I've undertaken on Letterboxd to list the first queer film in every country. Below is the list with my notes and sources listed. This is a long post, so please feel free to ignore this. I just wanted it somewhere other than my own head.

Afghanistan - 2010 documentary film Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. It was funded by and ran on PBS. I doubt anything queer is going to be shown inside the country. The director is Afghani though and it was largely filmed in the country.

Albania - 2015 fiction film Sworn Virgin. Source: blog submission. A cursory search did not turn up anything earlier

Algeria - 2004 fiction film Viva Algeria. I forget the source, but it noted this as the only film with a gay character to come out of the country.

American Samoa - 2013 fiction film Seki A Oe: A Crazy Samoan Love Story. Literally the only film ever made in American Samoa. One of the main characters is fa'afafine

Andorra - 2022 fiction film Dones d'aigua. Technically a music video, but it has a fully fleshed out plot and the singer does not appear in it. It's a sweet love story involving a mermaid. (Why a mermaid is living in a lake in Andorra is beyond me, but hey, it's fantasy.) It's on YouTube.

Angola - 2019 fiction film Serpentário. I believe this film was released in Portugal, but the director grew up in Angola and much of the film was shot there.

Antigua and Barbuda - nothing yet. Caribbean films are really hard to find.

Argentina - 1980 fiction film Adiós, Roberto. At least two sources named this as the first queer Argentine film.

Armenia - 1969 fiction film The Color of Pomegranates. Source: one of this blog's followers. Thanks!

Aruba - see note re: Antigua

Australia - 1970 fiction film The Set. Source: https://queerarchives.org.au/australian-queer-archival-films/ (The Naked Bunyip, mentioned first, was released in November, whereas The Set was released in February.)

Austria - 1922 science film The Steinach Film. Source: blog submission. It *did* have a theatrical release because people are weird. I haven't found anything earlier, at least not yet.

Azerbaijan - 2014 fiction film My name is İntiqam. Source: https://queeradar.com/en/lgbtiq-in-azerbaijani-cinema/

The Bahamas - 2007 fiction short film Float. Source: dug this up for the blog a year ago. A couple sources I found then named this as the first.

Bahrain - nothing yet. They don't make very many movies in Bahrain.

Bangladesh - 2012 fiction film Common Gender. Source: Celluloid Rainbow

Barbados - 2016 short fiction film Pieta. Source: Pride Barbados' Facebook page, announcing a showing of it

Belarus - nothing yet, but I haven't looked that closely

Belgium - 1968 fiction film Monsieur Hawarden. Source: I don't remember at this point, so I'm not sure it's correct

Belize - nothing yet. Did find out there is a queer film festival held in Belize though.

Benin - nothing yet, but I haven't looked at this country specifically

Bermuda - Again, Caribbean films are hard to track down

Bhutan - 2022 fiction short film Final Hour. Source: Queer Voices Bhutan's Facebook page. They screened it at one of their meetings, so I know it exists in some capacity.

Bolivia - 2001 fiction short film Sexo. Source: literally just scrolling through every movie tagged "Bolivia" on Imdb

Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2005 fiction film Go West. Source: something I found for the blog ages ago. I would need to double check, but the timing seems about right.

Botswana - 2019 short fiction film 2064. Source: https://www.mambaonline.com/2020/03/07/donald-molosi-on-2064-botswanas-first-queer-film/. I have to say, having your first ever queer film be a sci-fi piece about climate change is pretty epic, so major kudos to Botswana.

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There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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Trans people don't need to disclose that they're trans to you before you date them but i definitely think cis people should start disclosing they're cis instead of just saying "im a girl/boy" cause dating a cis person is a commitment not everyone has the time for. Like buying a bird

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Fairydoll chapter 1 is up!

A guard to the Royal court of Fairies aspires to be a knight, but when she intrudes on a beautiful fairy performing forbidden magic - her plans get turned upside down. Earwig is honorbound, but the fairy intrigues her, as she gets further tangled into her web of illusions, desire, and lies.

Read chapter 1 here

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nona the ninth

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Have you heard of GPN? Just saw this here

free maja here actually refers to the non-binary anti fascist activist Maja T., a german citizen who has been held in hungarian prison for almost two years now. they are currently on a hunger strike to protest the conditions and treatment they're experiencing in prison.

there is very little talk about this case outside german language media and anti fascist circles, but it's a really important case for antifas across europe and the world, so it's worth looking into!

not perfect but here's one thing i found about it in english:

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June 21, Berlin - No Nazis at Marzahn Pride!

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the arm scene but it’s gideon’s heart

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interview with angelocaris

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

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Tamsyn Muir's writing beyond The Locked Tomb

Y'all, turns out there's lots of imagery and themes in TLT that Muir was already playing with in her earlier fiction. A lot of it is easily available online, in which case I'll link to it. (The short stories that aren't can also be easily read if googled, to be quite honest—that's how I read The Deepwater Bride and Why the Mermaids Left Boralus). • The House That Made the Sixteen Loops of Time (2011)

5K. Short sort-of-cozy romance (?) with (you guessed it) a time travel loop. Explores a very queer potential relationship. CamPal enjoyers might find a similar sweetness.

• The Magician's Apprentice (2012, Lightspeed Magazine)

5K. This is the one that stopped me dead on my tracks. It features an older, male mentor figure called John (a “very ordinary man” with “dark eyes”) who introduces the young, female main character to magic that has a terrible cost—and to literature such as Lolita. This excellent post by @familyabolisher does an incredible job of analyzing the very deliberate intertextual links between TLT and Lolita.

• The Woman in the Hill (2015, Lightspeed Magazine, originally for Dreams From the Witch House anthology of Lovecraftian horror by women)

4K. Possibly my favorite! It's a straightforward Lovecraftian horror, centered on the image of the woman (is it human though?) trapped in an unnatural pool inside a cursed cave. Chain imagery too. It does something different from Alecto, mind, but you can see links, ways of playing with facets of a strong central image. It's fun to consider how reliable the two narrators are. Here's an analysis and afterthought from Reactor Mag.

• Chew (2013) 4K. Zombie abuse and cannibalistic revenge story ft. an uncanny woman revenant, told from the eyes of a traumatized German boy. I was strongly reminded of Harrow's conversations with the Body. Tamsyn gave an interview on the themes and her intentions. Interesting to read in light of Alecto, I think, although I don't think she's going the same route in TLT: “the idea of post-war rebuilding connecting to rebuilding the body of the zombie; a Frankenstein who once rebuilt doesn’t act as planned or desired. […] I love cannibalism […] it’s innately spiritual […] any afterlife she goes to, he’s going too.”

• Apothecia (2014, published on Tumblr and tapas.io)

Short webcomic where an alien monster tries to corrupt the ruthless human girl who holds it captive. Musings on responsibility and murder, mention of child abuse. The alien's speech patterns remind me of a Resurrection Beast. You get wonderful dialogue like “Murder is a profession. Job. Employment, you tiny leg dog. There you are, walking along. Walk walk walk. Now you are a walker. Good job. Special child. Murder is like this.” Art by Shelby Cragg.

• The Deepwater Bride (2015, Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine)

The opening line is: “In the time of our crawling Night Lord's ascendancy, foretold by exodus of starlight into his sucking astral wounds, I turned sixteen and received Barbie's Dream Car.” Need I say more? Extremely fun. A novelette where a young queer girl from a clairvoyant family struggles with an apocalyptic event while being annoyed by another very plucky girl. Lots of descriptions with nerdy marine zoology terms. Close in tone to Gideon. In the background, someone dies EXACTLY like that one death at the end of Gideon, which makes me wonder what happened to make Tamsyn interested in this particular image. I also liked that Tamsyn is aware of Nightwish. No link, but you'll get a PDF immediately if you Google.

• Union (2015, Clarkesworld Magazine)

5.5K. Very weird, extremely Kiwi story about a town that gets sent lab-grown wives by the government, but they're not made the usual way so they're Weird and people have feelings about it. Fascinating and eerie description of non-human (in some people's eyes, sub-human) women (?) who cannot be observed to have recognizable feelings or thoughts, yet have some sort of inner life. Quite touching, very uncanny.

• Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (2020)

Short novel (~200 pages). Very funny. I was reminded of Coronabeth because the whole plot is “princess finds herself branching out into decidedly non-princess-like activities”, but other than that—this is a fairytale for adults about people who make eachother worse. No particular links to TLT but a very fun read with some gut punches. Extremely Tamsyn through and through, what with the dubious morality and all.

• Why the Mermaids Left Boralus (2021, in Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth by Blizzard Entertainment)

Set in the World of Warcraft universe. Haven't read this one yet, will report back lmao. As with The Deepwater Bride, no link but I easily found a PDF of the entire compilation. It's illustrated!

• Undercover (2022, from Into Shadow, Amazon Original Collection)

Haven't read it either. Will edit once I do.

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fascinated by this screenshot where they took out the poster's username and replaced it with a very small picture of alex the lion

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