"Dickinson’s black cake recipe also helps us reimagine Emily herself—not as the austere recluse the patriarchal literary establishment has long portrayed, but as a sensuous, socially connected woman who shared poems and cakes with family, friends, and her life-long queer love."

You should read this. It is one of my favorite articles I've ever read, and it resides on my favorites bar on my browser because it is that good. It is about Emily Dickinson www.atlasobscura.com/articles/emi...

I wasn't entirely wrong, I guess. And this was before legalized gay marriage and the DADT repeal, btw. For what it's worth.

I survived neglect, ana, abuse, suicide, deployment, and a cult that I sort of accidentally started with my then-bestie (before her villain era).

I'm buoy adjacent. 3/3

I'm an aspiring translator of Arabic literature, writer of mostly creepy cute surreal fiction, artist of mostly the same, homeschool mom, and was 🫰🏾this close🤌🏾 to being a gold star lesbian if I hadn't thought a stupid old-school beard marriage would help me survive a cult. 2/3

Solidarity and empathy on the face blindness. It is a serious anxiety producer. I'm pretty sure a significant part of why it's always been easier for me to maintain friendships with people of other ethnicities and/or alternative appearances is that I can differentiate them from random strangers.