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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 8h

NO damn you autocorrect, that should say MIRHA-Soleil Ross

⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 9h

bookish checkpoint 📝

last book: Bebías into Ohndaa Ke (ed. Sydney Rae Krill and Kleo Skavinski)

current: Terra Nova (Jack Bouchard)

newest tbr add: The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram (Dean Snow)

eagerly waiting for: Gendertrash From Hell (ed. Morgan Soleil-Ross)

sans seraph @shaawan.com · 11h

bookish checkpoint 📝

last book: Black Flame (Gretchen Felker-Martin)

current: Caesarea (Tony Burgess), Zig-Zag (Madison Smartt Bell), Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

newest tbr add: So Much Longing in So Little Space (Karl Ove Knausgård)

eagerly waiting for: Persona (Aoife Josie Clements)

max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 13h

bookish checkpoint 📝

last book: The Flood (Michael McDowell)

current: Sleepwalk (Dan Chaon), Vineland (Pynchon), Kayak (Kristal Stittle), Smoke Season (Carrie Laben), All Hallows (Golden)

newest tbr add: Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)

eagerly waiting for: A Brief & Fearful Star (Carmen Maria Machado)

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 11h

I was thinking about making a list of media with Weird Transfag Vibes but I got as far as

- He’s a Woman, She’s a Man, dir. Peter Chan (1994)
- Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde (1884)

And then I struggled to think of any other examples quite as bonkers as these two

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

I was thinking of splitting them into groups and having them just present to the smaller groups, but not quite sure how to facilitate that

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

Trying to figure out how to facilitate my 20 students all sharing their projects with each other in a 75min class period....they made little exhibitions with 4 images + descriptions. Considering their last presentations took 10min when I told them to make them 5min, I'm not sure we can do ALL of em

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 17h

#earlymodern #arthistory #globalhistory book alert! 💙📚 🗃

Dr. Héctor Linares @hectorlinares.bsky.social · 17h

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

sudansolidarity.com

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 1d

I'm not kidding and I pay $100

Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 2d

J. Jonah Jameson voice: bring me experimental transsexual geographies!

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m thinkinggggg!!! I’m doing a zine workshop with my trans studies students later this fall so I’m hoping that will revive my zinemaking skills

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I just got this book in the mail today and I am exciteddddd

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 9d

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers

history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

In the text she's pretty clear about wanting to be a woman in a relationship with a man. Ofc that doesn't mean she couldn't also be nonbinary in the modern sense; the tricky part is that the concept of "inversion" was invoked by people ranging from what we'd call cis gay men to transfem spec ppl

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I would recommend listening to the whole album straight through, because it has cool interludes that blend the songs. But if you wanna try one or two, my recs are Pitci-Pipon and Minokamin for upbeat, and Pipon or Sikwan for slower songs. Also if you don't know Algonquin, the titles are the seasons!

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I think I hyped this already but if you haven't checked out the album Nogom Nikamowin, you NEED to. It dropped September of this year and afaik is the second ever contemporary music album in Algonquin after Samian's album Nikamo. It's folk-indie-ish, but it's pretty diverse.

Nogom Nikamowin, by Musique Nomade

13 track album

musiquenomade.bandcamp.com

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

This book is incredible ngl. It’s very devastating but an incredible record. After I read it I was aghast that anyone read this book and was like “ah, a gay man” when Jennie June is so so clear about being a trans woman.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Here for Canada: arpbooks.org/product/bebi...

Not sure how to get it to the US or elsewhere but I’ll try to find out

Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke - ARP Books

Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community is a powerful collection of essays, stories and conversations that provide us...

https://arpbooks.org/product/bebias-into-ǫhndaa-ke/

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh that makes sense. I guess I didn’t notice that some Americans do say it like squirl. I was imagining that hilarious video of a French guy attempting to guess how to say English words, and he says squirrel like “skyoorel” 😂

⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Wait how do non-Americans say squirrel???

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 2d

My new zine, Distance Montage, is available through the Other Spaces bandcamp. Seven poems and seven facing images inspired by Artavazd Peleshian.

All proceeds support further work by trans artists, writers, and musicians on space, place, time, and moment.

otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/isobel...

Isobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other Spaces

otherspaces.bandcamp.com

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Bertrand Lobjois @mexiqueancien.bsky.social · 3d

Comparto con ustedes este video, comparto con ustedes la transmisión de la conferencia del doctor Miguel Pastrana acerca de #Tenochtitlan, origen y destino.

#mitos #peregrinacion #codex

Sociedad y cultura en los primeros años de Tenochtitlan

YouTube video by elcolegionacionalmx

www.youtube.com

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3d

So the question that occurred to me just now is—when we look at people like Lucy Hicks Anderson or Mary Jones in the 1800s, what did “trans representation” look like to them? Even “pop culture” was a different thing then, but what were the images of transness circulating that shaped them?

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3d

there’s truth to that, but it’s true less often than we think. I’m obsessed with a quote from Samuel Delany where he clearly cites how the things he had read in the SIXTIES shaped how he articulated his coming out. It might not be “positive rep” but it was THERE.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Rewatching Disclosure before we discuss “representation” as a potential method for trans changemaking. I had a new thought in my ongoing mental debate about whether we “need” representation. Young people often think yes, but I hear elders say “we had no representation and still ended up trans.”

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently today is international Lesbian Day? Happy extra birthday to every single lesbian out there!!!

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3d

But on here it’s somehow gotten mixed up in this convo about whether you think AI is a person, as if the sides are “thinks AI is a person therefore you shouldn’t slur it” and “thinks AI is NOT a person so it’s okay to slur it.” To me AI is not a person but “funny” slurs are signs of deeper issues

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