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"real-life community historian from Minnesota" lmao 🌞 27 🌞 he/him

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Begging romance novel narrators to stop pronouncing NCAA as "en see ay ay"
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
ulsw.bsky.social
I've been looking for a book on 20th century Scandinavian trans history! This thread also mentions Sam Holmqvist, whose works on 18th century Swedish trans history I also recommend.
creepyweeper.bsky.social Crybaby 💧 @creepyweeper.bsky.social · 5d
honorable mention till Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine av @slagstadk.bsky.social som jag nyss börjat läsa men inte kommer hinna läsa klart innan året är slut. intressant och viktig forskning om skandinavisk transvårds historia. återkommer säkert med djupare tankar när jag läst ut!
Ketil Slagstads Standradizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ulsw.bsky.social
My husband's crab army grows (and two more people are converted to painting minis mua ha ha).
syjac.bsky.social Beans @syjac.bsky.social · Nov 24
My friend @ulsw.bsky.social taught me and his husband how to paint minis yesterday by trying out these little Heroscape crabs. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot! c:
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ulsw.bsky.social
I've been putting together a list of regional queer history writing for every Midwestern state for ~reasons~, and literally every monograph, academic article, dissertation, even popular press book I've found for the state of Illinois is about fucking 20th century Chicago.
Two books covers. The first (left) is titled QUEER CLOUT: CHICAGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLITICS. The cover includes lavender, yellow, and white sans serif text in all capitals over a black-and-white photograph of two white men protesting at a park c. 1970s; one of the men carries a flag with two Venus symbols and two Mars symbols overlapping under the illustration of a raised fist, indicating gay and lesbian solidarity. The second (right) is for the book CREATING A PLACE FOR OURSELVES: LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL COMMUNITY HISTORIES. The cover includes black and green serif text over a black-and-white photograph of a city street packed with cars and wide sidewalk packed with people walking in the United States c. 1945. The photo has been recolored in sepia tones/yellow except for a rectangle that is still in black and white; this relief is a visual metaphor, suggesting both that historic queer spaces existed alongside, even blended in with, non-queer spaces and that the authors in this collection of essays will highlight these spaces specifically. Two screenshots of websites. The first (left) is of the table of contents for QUEER BRONZEVILLE, 1900-1985, BY TRISTAN CABELLO, a digital exhibit hosted by OutHistory. Pink and black serif text is on white and gray backgrounds, and white serif text is on a pink background. The second (right) is the abstract of the academic article ONLY IN THE BIG CITY: ISOLATION, RURALITY, AND LEISURE IN LESBIAN CHICAGO, 1971-1996, published by the Journal of Urban History. Black and blue sans serif text is on a white background, and the name of the journal is in white sans serif font on a dark green background at the top of the screenshot. Two books covers. The first (left) is for OUT IN CHICAGO: LGBT HISTORY AT THE CROSSROADS. Red and black mixed font styles sit atop a beige background, along with two rainbow stripes (one above the title, the other above the subtitle) and four six-pointed red stars between "in" and "Chicago." The second (right) is for QUEER LEGACIES: STORIES FROM CHICAGO'S LGBTQ ARCHIVES. Black and pink text in mixed font styles sits on a white rectangle, and the white rectangle sits on a collage of three photographs: two black women and a white man blowing up balloons on a sunny day c. 1980s (top), buttons with slogans on them on a turquoise background (bottom left), and a black-and-white photograph of three women in black skirts sitting on a couch and white drapes c. 1950s (bottom right). Two book covers. The first (left) is for CHICAGO WHISPERS: A HISTORY OF LGBT CHICAGO BEFORE STONEWALL. The background is a dark sepia toned photograph of a wet, busy urban street surrounded by tall brick buildings c. 1910s. The title is written in a sand or beige serif font that blends into the photograph and positioned at the top of the cover. The subtitle is written in a white serif font in all capitals on a black background towards the center of the cover. The second (right) is for OUT AND PROUD IN CHICAGO: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CITY'S GAY COMMUNITY. The title is written in white and gray sans serif fonts and positioned in a stripe of black between the top and center of the cover. Above and below the black stripe are 10 photographs separated by thin black stripes; the photographs represent multiple eras (from the early 1900s to the 2000s) and include portraits of singular people and couples, shots of protests and prides, and images of buildings. The use of photos from a variety of eras and showing a variety of subjects is meant to emphasize the breadth of Chicago's queer history.
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ulsw.bsky.social
For the last day of Transgender Awareness Week, I want to share my 3+ year project Transgender Ancestors, a guide for genealogists on Wikitree (@wikitree.bsky.social). It links ~50 profiles of everyday trans people born before 1930, these trans life stories reconstructed from vital & census records.
Transgender ancestors
Wiki page on Transgender ancestors.
www.wikitree.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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WELCOME. SHE’S HERE.

thrilled to reveal the cover of my debut novel, a queer sports romance where a sizzling rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated ❤️‍🔥

HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE will be yours on 3/31/26 & is now available for preorder (🔗 in bio!)

#booksky #queerbooksky
The cover art of HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, a novel by Celine Ong, where two male wrestlers (to the left is an Asian man in his 20s with black hair tied up in a man bun and a red fringe cascading down his face, dressed in a pair of black wrestling tights designed to look like flames; to the right is a white man with short blond hair with slight curls at the top, dressed in white tights and blue lines coming up the side) square up in the middle of a ring. They stare at each other with a mix of fierceness and affection, and have an arm on each other. They are illuminated by pinkish, purplish, and blueish stage lights above. In the background, a faceless crowd watches them. a synopsis for HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE that reads: When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this dazzling debut romance. From dramatic character gimmicks to death-defying stunts, everything in the world of professional wrestling is an act. Asher Ross's hatred for Caleb Knight, however, is not. When Asher gets drafted to Global Elite Wrestling’s main roster, playing the role of Caleb’s worst enemy—the face to his heel—should be easy. Stripping him of his World Championship title should be even easier. But as the two men trade barbs and blows across arenas, they’re each surprised to find their chemistry is so sizzling, it can’t just be for the cameras.

Through training sessions, rehearsals, and injuries, Caleb’s icy demeanor melts away, and Asher begins to see the real man behind the cruel persona GEW has molded Caleb into. An unlikely truce evolves into feelings neither want to deny, but the company won’t let them be seen as anything other than bitter rivals, both in and out of the ring.

As Asher and Caleb grapple with what they truly want in an industry with a history of denying queerness, their forbidden romance comes crashing down on them, and both men are forced to decide if their relationship is real enough to last, and just how much they’re willing to fight for it. a trope map for HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, including: freak4freak, himbo golden retriever x soggy wet cat, fuck you (nuclear grade yearning), hurt/comfort, a bi demon & a gay disaster walk into a bar, the inherent eroticism of choking out your enemy, found family, love letter to queer history & revolution, with text that announces “now available for pre-order”
July 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM