#Memoir of the Man

[romansmartini]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to speculate about the sexual and romantic undertones of celebrities’ professional relationships

[walks-the-ages]

OP deactivated, and some of the links were broken/marked unsafe by Firefox, so here's a new compilation post of Leslie Feinburg's (She/her, ze/hir) novels and essays on being transgender:

Stone Butch Blues official free source directly from Author's website:

Stone Butch Blues, backup on the webarchive:

Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come, on the web archive:

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, on the web archive:

Lavender and Red, PDF essay collection:

Drag King Dreams, on the web archive:

(Also, if anyone ever tells you that the protagonist of Stone Butch Blues ""ends up with a man""........ they're transmisogynistic jackass TERFs who are straight up lying)

Please also check out your local public libraries for these books and see if they carry them, to help support public libraries! If you have a library card already you can checkout Libby and Overdrive to see if your public library carries it as an ebook that you can checkout :)

EDIT: another not included on the orignal masterpost-- Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or blue !

annnnnd in light of the web archive losing it's court case, here's a backup of both PDFs and generated epubs a friend made:

5/26/2023: hello! I am adding on yet another book of queer history, this time the autobiography of Karl Baer, a Jewish, intersex trans man who was born in 1884! Please signal boost this version, and remember to check the notes whenever this crosses your dash for any new updates :)

6/24/2023: Two links to share!

Someone made an Epub version of Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years, which you can find Here , as a more accessible version than a pdf of a scanned book if you're like me and need larger text size for reading--

And from another post I reblogged earlier today, I discovered the existence of "TransSisters: the Journal of Transsexual Feminism", which has 10 issues from 1993-1995, and includes multiple interviews with Leslie Feinburg and other queer feminists / activists of the 90s!

Here's a link to all 10 issues of TransSisters, plus a 1996 "look back at" by one of the writers after the journal ended, you can find all 10 issues on the Internet Archive Here !

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8/28/2023:

"Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out", can be found on the web archive Here, for the 25th Anniversary Edition from 2015,

and also Here, for the original 1991 version.

Each of the above can be borrowed for one hour at a time as long as a copy is available :D

This is a living post that receives sporadic updates on the original, if you are seeing this on your dash, click Here to see the latest version of the post to make sure you're reblogging the most up to date one :)

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October, 25th 2023:

"I began to dawdle over breakfast during shift changes, asking both waitresses questions. After weeks of inquiries, they invited me to a demonstration, outside Kleinhan's Music Hall, protesting the Israeli war against Egypt and Syria. I was particularly interested in that protest. The state of Israel had been declared shortly before my birth. In Hebrew school I was taught "Palestine was a land without peo-ple, for a people without a land." That phrase haunted me as a child. I pictured ears with no one in them, and movies projected on screens in empty theaters. When I checked a map of that region of the Middle East in my school geography textbook, it was labeled Palestine, not Israel. Yet when I asked my grandmother who the Palestinians were, she told me there were no such people. The puzzle had been solved for me in my adolescence. I developed a strong friendship with a Lebanese teenager, who explained to me that the Palestinian people had been driven off their land by Zionist settlers, like the Native peoples in the United States. I studied and thought a great deal about all she told me. From that point on I staunchly opposed Zionist ideology and the occupation of Palestine. So I wanted to go to the protest. However, I feared the demonstration, no matter how justified, would be tainted by anti-Semitism. But I was so angered by the actions of the Israeli government and military, that I went to the event to check it out for myself. That evening, I arrived at Kleinhan's before the protest began. Cops in uniforms and plainclothes surrounded the music hall. I waited impatiently for the protesters to arrive. Suddenly, all the media swarmed down the street. I ran after them. Coming over the hill was a long column of people moving toward Kleinhan's. The woman who led the march and spoke to reporters proudly told them she was Jewish! Others held signs and banners aloft that read: "Arab Land for Arab People!" and "Smash Anti-Semitism!" Now those were two slogans I could get behind! I wanted to know who these people were and where they had been all my life! Hours later I followed the group back to their headquarters. Orange banners tacked up on the walls expressed solidarity with the Attica prisoners and the Vietnamese. One banner particularly haunted me. It read: Stop the War Against Black America, which made me realize that it wasn't just distant wars that needed opposing. Yet although I worked with two members of this organization, I felt nervous that night. These people were communists, Marxists! Yet I found it easy to get into discussions with them. I met waitresses, factory workers, secretaries, and truck drivers. And I decided they were some of the most principled people I had ever met. For example, I was impressed that many of the men I spoke with talked to me about the importance of fighting the oppression of gays and lesbians, and of all women. Yet I knew they thought they were talking to a straight man" Transgender Warriors (1996) Leslie Feinberg

[theagenes]

Art Donaldson | Challengers (2024)

[ride-a-cow-boy]

JACOB ELORDI | Priscilla (2023) dir. Sofia Coppola.

[joejoeba]

i just remembered how many gold ships there are in JoJo like it truly does not get more wild. Every one hits in some wild offshoot bullseye

[a-typical]

At almost any location in any major city on Earth, you are likely standing on thousands of bodies. These bodies represent a history that exists, often unknown, beneath our feet. While a new Crossrail station was being dug in London in 2015, 3,500 bodies were excavated from a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cemetery under Liverpool Street, including a burial pit from the Great Plague of 1665. To cremate bodies we burn fossil fuel, thus named because it is made of decomposed dead organisms. Plants grow from the decayed matter of former plants. The pages of this book are made from the pulp of raw wood from a tree felled in its prime. All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person.

Death avoidance is not an individual failing; it’s a cultural one. Facing death is not for the faint-hearted. It is far too challenging to expect that each citizen will do so on his or her own. Death acceptance is the responsibility of all death professionals—funeral directors, cemetery managers, hospital workers. It is the responsibility of those who have been tasked with creating physical and emotional environments where safe, open interaction with death and dead bodies is possible.

— From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

(Hangman and Rooster are making out in the stock room of the Hard Deck) Hangman:...Rooster, what're we doing? Rooster: I hope it's foreplay. Hangman: We should get back. Rooster(checks his watch): Yeah, yeah, we should get back. (Rooster then resumes kissing Hangman) Hangman: Let's not do anything cheap and meaningless. Rooster: OK, what do I owe you? Hangman(laughs): You couldn't afford it...

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Assets From "Dreamjoy Memoir: Extra Story" Event

[briebysabs]

If I had a nickel for each time a female mangaka put in their shonen series a mysterious, eccentric being based on the Count of St. Germain I would have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice right?

[francesderwent]

any girl who talks about men as if they’re a terrifying other species, violent or unemotional or uncaring, their humanity dubious for whatever reason, should be forced to read James Herriot.

[roseaesynstylae]

There's a certain type of ship where I go wild and I know the exact qualifications.

They have dark hair and light hair, respectively, although LiuShen gets a pass.

They should not, and often do not, get along.

They either don't explicitly get together or haven't gotten together yet in canon.

They are total idiots about each other but are in denial about it.

The more "go away I hate you" they are, the crazier they are about the other.

AWKWARD on so many levels

[ask-my-memoir]

???: "..."

Anon , @ask-everything-nice

Thank you so much for the asks!))

[hunieday]

Happy birthday Vanitas !!! u are a little gremlin man

[eternal-moss]

Noé’s name

Noé’s name is a pun, something that I initially found quite funny. Noé Archiviste is a reference to Noah’s Ark, which in French is Arche de Noé. Vanitas even establishes this within the story in the first chapter, which was his immediate reaction to hearing the name:

The more we learn about this though, the more (depressingly) apt a name it becomes. The biblical story of Noah’s Ark has everything living being obliterated by The Flood, other than those in the ark.

Other than Noé (and *ahem* let’s just not consider her for now) all the other Archivistes are dead. In fact, rather than just his whole family lineage, like the House d'Apchier, it seems that his people as a whole were deliberately killed through what was presumably a genocide.

Again, it seems to be a really fitting name with the themes presented in vnc- the Archivistes (as explained by [we have no idea what her name is]) are supposed to be recorders of history and knowledge, like the cognate word in English, archivist. However Noé knows nothing about his family or knowledge of what happened to his people on a wider scale, creating a pretty poignant sense of irony. Although he himself is an observer, and again and again is forced to witness horrific events through either his own eyes, or through the memories of others he STILL gets no information for himself about himself.

Noé is ignorant of a lot of wider knowledge about human-vampire society and history- again it’s ironic that his mentor was named ‘The Teacher’ but intentionally withheld a lot of information from Noé, both about himself, his background and the world, leaving him unaware and at a disadvantage in life.

This is especially highlighted with his ignorance towards the discrimination against Dhampires, and he takes the brunt of the backlash once again due to a piece of information willingly kept from him.

It’s quite tragic that Noé’s life/childhood has been continually traumatic but instead of getting any closure to his experiences, he has to experience more and more, bearing witness to the brutal ugliness of both humanity and vampires again and again. Even within the story as a both a dual protagonist and narrator, he is relating the story of Vanitas- and how ultimately he, unwillingly, had to take Vanitas’ life.

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

goodreads

Sometimes you just have to yell. New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre Daniel M. Lavery publishing as Daniel Mallory Ortberg has mastered the art of “poetic yelling,” a genre surely familiar to fans of his cult-favorite website The Toast. In this irreverent essay collection, Ortberg expands on this concept with in-depth and hilarious studies of all things pop culture, from the high to low brow. From a thoughtful analysis on the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a laugh-out-loud funny and whip-smart collection for those who don’t take anything—including themselves—much too seriously.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this one and I probably won't, because I personally don't care very much about people's opinion on pop culture, but I love the title.

[dujourslavemix]

Alan Cumming backstage post Cabaret :]

1998 / 2014 (photographed by Amy Arbus)