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official writer xyzzy<p>hello all! you can call me xyzzy. i love to write, i've been doing it since i was 10. i mostly write short fiction of a somewhat litfic-y variety. i'm a longtime fedi user, but i've never had a public account just to discuss my writing before, so we'll see how this goes!</p><p>i have free short stories available to read on my website: <a href="https://xyzzyzzyzx.xyz/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xyzzyzzyzx.xyz/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>and a self-published short story collection available to purchase: <a href="https://xyzzyzzyzx.itch.io/born-to-suffer-needlessly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xyzzyzzyzx.itch.io/born-to-suf</span><span class="invisible">fer-needlessly</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a></p>
Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈<p>THE IMPLICATIONS OF "QUEER"</p><p>I have been catching up on the reading of my former (queer) professor and I am happy to find he has continued in being the queer pioneer he always was.</p><p>We are used, if we know anything about "queer", to the slogan "queer means attack". But what is it queer attacks? The essay I read suggests it is "identity". Yes, that's right, in a world chock full of people who want to make the (sometimes essentialising) claim that they simply "are" things, all kinds of queer people and theorists claim that "queer" is that which attacks the very notion of "identity" and destabilises the intellectual ground on which "identity" can seem convincing.</p><p>I am going to write a book next called "Sexual Autonomy". In brief, it is a book about how sexual autonomy is at the heart of political freedom and is, in fact, a necessary component of it. I think the queer insight I just mentioned here is part of that. For we cannot be free if we lock ourselves up in incarcerating notions about sex. </p><p>For example, some people think there are things called "gay sex" and "heterosexual sex". These exist based on the idea that there are definitive "men" and definitive "women". The intellectual position "queer" says no to this. It says these identifications are rhetoric not fact, fiction (which is and can be for purposes) and not inherent reality. Queer says knowledge, all knowledge, is a tool of power and made up to get somewhere rather than reflecting an idealistically conjured "reality". Nature does not distinguish between "gay sex" and "heterosexual sex". There is just sex. Nature does not distinguish between "man" and "woman". There are just humans. Nature does not distinguish between reproductive or recreational sex. There is just sex.</p><p>So what queer says here is "Ask yourself what people are doing with their words and why they imagine the world in one way and not another." There are not only two types of anything (and these two types are not opposites either). Queer, if it is anything, is (expanding) diversity. It (I hope) makes you think.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bi</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pansexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pansexual</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queerwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerwriters</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>I have written about <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> before, but when one considers oneself a writer, analyzing an activity, processing content, and thinking about thinking become part of one’s life. They are the stuff of which stories are made.<br><a href="https://buff.ly/fDUqO0t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/fDUqO0t</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/ThinkingAboutThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkingAboutThinking</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>Today at 6pm EST, the graduating class of GrubStreet's Queer Novel Immersive class will be reading from our manuscripts. I'll be reading a fun excerpt featuring a mergoat who creates rivers with a certain part of his anatomy. Come check us out! Register here for the link. https://<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpLvEwhuen8D0GuMNYW0Ox_SBvV_hFhADKrz5Cm-MSuk7Afg/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI</span><span class="invisible">pQLSfpLvEwhuen8D0GuMNYW0Ox_SBvV_hFhADKrz5Cm-MSuk7Afg/viewform</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA2S</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/QueerBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerBooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeculativeFiction</span></a></p>
Hawkblood • Laura<p>Some older character art of my characters Chris and Markus when they were young adults :&gt;<br>I really like doing these "fake screenshot" scenes digitally 💙✨️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/OriginalCharacter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OriginalCharacter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queerart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerart</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>On Tuesday, March 18 at 6pm EST, the graduating class of GrubStreet's Queer Novel Immersive class will be reading from our manuscripts. I'll be reading a fun excerpt about the god of semen and fresh water. Come check it out! Register here for the link. https://<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpLvEwhuen8D0GuMNYW0Ox_SBvV_hFhADKrz5Cm-MSuk7Afg/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI</span><span class="invisible">pQLSfpLvEwhuen8D0GuMNYW0Ox_SBvV_hFhADKrz5Cm-MSuk7Afg/viewform</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA2S</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/QueerBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerBooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeculativeFiction</span></a></p>
FID Anglo-American Culture<p>... and here is the <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/EdwardGorey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwardGorey</span></a> biography "Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markdery" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markdery</span></a></span> on the "grandfather of Goth"</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biography</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/GothicLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GothicLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AmericanWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanWriters</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gothic</span></a></p>
(Art) History Punk<p>Da es hier auf Mastodon eine recht große queere bzw. queerfreundliche Bubble gibt, hier eine weitere Empfehlung: Meine Freundin ist seit Jahren Buchbloggerin und versucht sich jetzt selbstständig zu machen. Sie hat sich auf queere Bücher spezialisiert, vor allem auf Indie-Autor_innen, die selbst verlegen, weil der große Buchmarkt sie nicht aufnimmt. Hier ist ihr Instagram-Account: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lua3000/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/lua3000/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Retoots und rebossts erwünscht </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/QueerBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerBooks</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>I will be contributing all my royalties to LGBTQIA+ organizations in support of fighting on behalf of the community and/or helping individuals in the community affected by the pogrom being inflicted by t-RUMP and his minions!<br><a href="https://buff.ly/40IzsaU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/40IzsaU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>Now is the time when storytelling really counts. No matter how grief-stricken and powerless we might feel, shining our light means more now than ever. Queer writers, allies, friends, family, let’s get moving!<br><a href="https://buff.ly/4jFsrAm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4jFsrAm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/WritingPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingPrompt</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>Writing queer Appalachian romance has allowed me to work through some of my complicated feelings about West Virginia and the kind of place that it has become over the last couple of decades.<br><a href="https://buff.ly/4hrxulU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4hrxulU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/RomanceWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanceWriting</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRomance</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Mx Verda<p><a href="https://www.anarchistfederation.net/new-publication-wobbly-times-interested/#/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">anarchistfederation.net/new-pu</span><span class="invisible">blication-wobbly-times-interested/#/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/zine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zine</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/write" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>write</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AutisticWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticWriters</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/contributors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contributors</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/idea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idea</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideas</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/EssayIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EssayIdeas</span></a></p>
Mx Verda<p>damn. I need more money for cool art things. </p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945721491/the-prule-titanium-multifunctional-edc-foldable-ruler" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kickstarter.com/projects/19457</span><span class="invisible">21491/the-prule-titanium-multifunctional-edc-foldable-ruler</span></a> </p><p>I can draw, write, edit, review, and speak in an east coast US american accent. <br>I can also edit audio and video files, but that's extra.</p><p><a href="https://artistree.io/mxverda" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">artistree.io/mxverda</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://subscribestar.adult/mxverde" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">subscribestar.adult/mxverde</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mxverda.itch.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mxverda.itch.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>That reminds me actually: <br>I have a new gender fuck update to post on Subscribe Star.</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BegPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BegPost</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BuyIntoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuyIntoArt</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NonbinaryArtist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonbinaryArtist</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArt</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerArtist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArtist</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArtists</span></a></p>
rebecca, pacific mega-dyke<p>if any of you lovely folks would like to help me out a bunch, i've created a sale on my super short story Olivia on itchio!</p><p>it's a wee short sad tale about a queer trans girl, told from the perspective of her girlfriend Tabitha</p><p>it's US$2.99 (roughly NZ$5.19) until end of january 2025!</p><p>you can pay via debit/credit card or paypal! card payment is my preference bc stripe takes a smaller cut than paypal lol but however you want to pay is fine by me!</p><p>also please boost??</p><p><a href="https://itch.io/s/141837/because-i-havent-plugged-this-in-a-really-long-time-sale?c=keptyouwaitinghuh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itch.io/s/141837/because-i-hav</span><span class="invisible">ent-plugged-this-in-a-really-long-time-sale?c=keptyouwaitinghuh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwriters</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queerstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerstories</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transstories</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aotearoa</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/newzealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newzealand</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queerfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerfiction</span></a></p>
dana hilliot<p>Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House</p><p>J’avais besoin tout à l’heure d’une référence à un passage de cette lettre célèbre d’Audre Lorde, qui a contribué à déranger et perturber le féminisme blanc en l’éprouvant aux autres formes de violences et d’exclusion – et surtout en le confrontant à un certain nombre de “différences” (raciales, économiques, sexuelles, etc..) que ce féminisme “blanc” passait (et passe encore trop souvent) sous silence. Il s’agit d’une brève tribune composée en réponse à la Second Sex Conference qui s’était tenue à New York le 29 septembre 1979 (sous le titre : “The personal and the political panel”). Le texte a été recueilli dans une collection d’articles, de conférences et d’essais sous le titre “Sister Outsider” en 1984.</p><p>On trouve le texte de “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” très facilement sur internet en langue anglais. Mais, sur internet, je n’ai pas trouvé de traduction française accessible. J’ai peut-être mal cherché. Les éditions Mamamelis (merci à elles !!) ont publié une traduction de l’ouvrage par Magali Calise en 2018 (réédité en 2023) – et de la plupart des textes d’Audre Lorde). </p><p><a href="http://mamamelis.com/lecatalogue/sisteroutsider/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">mamamelis.com/lecatalogue/sist</span><span class="invisible">eroutsider/index.html</span></a></p><p>Comme je n’en dispose pas, j’ai produit vite fait ma propre traduction. Le texte, d’un point de vue historique (et pas seulement historique : on ne peut pas dire que l’intégration de la question raciale et économique soit spontanément et systématiquement réalisée dans les narratifs féministes contemporains), a exercé une telle influence, pas seulement d’ailleurs aux États-Unis, qu’il m’a semblé indispensable de le rendre accessible sur la toile (en invitant à les internautes à lire Audrey Lorde, en anglais directement pour celles et ceux qui le peuvent, ou dans les traductions proposées par les éditions Mamamelis.</p><p><a href="https://outsiderland.com/danahilliot/audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-masters-house/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">outsiderland.com/danahilliot/a</span><span class="invisible">udre-lorde-the-masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-masters-house/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AudreLorde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AudreLorde</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> </p><p>extrait :</p><p>"Celles d’entre nous qui se situent en dehors du cercle de la définition des femmes acceptables de cette société, celles d’entre nous qui ont été forgées dans les creusets de la différence – celles d’entre nous qui sont pauvres, lesbiennes, noires, plus âgées – savent que la survie n’est pas une compétence académique. Il s’agit d’apprendre à rester seul, impopulaire et parfois vilipendé, et à faire cause commune avec les autres personnes identifiées comme étant en dehors des structures afin de définir et de rechercher un monde dans lequel nous pouvons tous(/toutes) nous épanouir. Il s’agit d’apprendre à se saisir de nos différences et à les transformer en forces. Car les outils du maître ne démonteront jamais la maison du maître. Ils peuvent nous permettre temporairement de le battre à son propre jeu, mais ils ne nous permettront jamais d’apporter un véritable changement. Et ce fait n’est menaçant que pour les femmes qui considèrent encore la maison du maître comme leur seule source de soutien."</p>
Prism & Pen<p>Edgar Pangborn (1909–1976) wrote in many genres, often under pseudonyms. His best work appeared under his own name, most of it science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, and is often decidedly <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a>.<br><a href="https://buff.ly/49bLWvD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/49bLWvD</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerFiction</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>A Democratic backsliding is already clearly starting. Trans people are the main targets at the moment, but the conservatives the Dems are trying to placate are certainly not going to stop with trans people.<br><a href="https://buff.ly/3CMlFry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3CMlFry</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/WritingPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingPrompt</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/JuliaSerano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuliaSerano</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a></p>
Or M. Bialik<p>Have to say, when I started writing <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> about non-white <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> characters struggling against regressive forces and trying to escape autocratic misogynistic societies... I didn't expect that it would become so... topical...<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> | <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> | <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> </p><p>(Yes, I'm trying to get the next one out by Chrismas, but no promises)</p>
Maike Stein<p>Seit Jahren hab ich es mir vorgenommen, jetzt habe ich es in die Tat umgesetzt: ab sofort könnt ihr meinen Newsletter abonnieren.<br><a href="http://mkstein.de/wp/?page_id=1205" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">mkstein.de/wp/?page_id=1205</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br>Was euch erwartet: Berichte aus dem Autorinnenleben, ab und an eine Kurzgeschichte (meist queer &amp; phantastisch), Neues zu Lesungen &amp; Veröffentlichungen und natürlich meine Gedanken zu Drachen (ohne geht nicht).</p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/autor_innenleben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autor_innenleben</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newsletter</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/QueerWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerWriters</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/phantastik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phantastik</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/drachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drachen</span></a></p>
Frey HG<p>Thinking of doing not-NaNo in November. Any tags to follow? </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/queerwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerwriters</span></a></p>