Quirk(y) Queer

I feel like this is me when I read queer* history in public.

7 plays

Saving Jane - “Autumn and Me”

We earned every line in our 25 years
We cried over boys and we laughed over beers
I wouldn’t trade the girl for a song
She lets me know right where I belong

Rooftop dancing in the summer heat
New car crash on a one way street
Strangers moving up to the fourth floor
Strange, now nobody knows me more

andrew-neil-parr:

‘Chosen One’
Paper art from ‘Java’ by Cecilia Levy

*saving for later

That moment your significant other realizes you yawn like a rabbit….

Me: Ok. Script. Stonewall Vlog Script.
Inner Me: (reading) BORING.
Me: Ok. (rewrites)
Inner Me: Reallly?
Me: It's witty.
Inner Me: It's cheeky.
Me: It's very quirky. 
Inner Me: It's very cheesy. 
Me: You have a better idea?
Inner Me: Yeah, tell them a person of color, dressed in drag, slapped a cop!
Me: That hasn't been proven.
Inner Me: No one documents early queer history. Rely on oral tradition like other cultures.
Me: Dram-a-turg.
Inner Me: No one knows what that is.
Me: (rewrites) ...So, the hairpin head around the world started with a slap.
Inner Me: You're getting there.

And (We) Shall

Theatre Moments I Love:

Leaving with a show with someone experiencing something new from the stage

I will never be crazy,” repeats the adolescent hero to herself. “I will never get killed. I have to grow up.”
― Blanche Mccrary Boyd

“

—	There is a staged reading of my thesis tonight. I have a fantastic support system that leaves me humble and loved. …I am scared out of my mind.

Sara Ramirez sings “And I Will Follow” by Jason Robert Brown.

Oh, all the voices that beg me to stand my ground -
Oh, all the voices that tell me to stay -
All representing the life that I’d planned around:
Do what’s expected,
Do what’s accepted,
Do what you’re told to,
Until today!
‘Til today…

I will follow
Anywhere,
I will follow,
And you will lead me
There…

I will follow
And you will lead me there.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
— C.G. Jung

“

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.

“

—	Alan Moore

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

“

—	Dexter Palmer (The Dream of Perpetual Motion)

awawards:

Awesome Hollowed-Out TV Bookcase via 25 Awesome DIY Ideas For Bookshelves by BuzzFeed

*saving here as personal note

30 plays

Sia - “Academia”