wow, so you really did learn nothing. almost impressive.

Or, everyone could have…read her story? Which is brilliant, & speaks very clearly for itself

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i also did not know that "beat" was an australianism

I just thought it was a generic term for a no-good person! not one I've ever used, but the kind of word my dad and his farmer mates would use

this article also describes "poofter" as "the most significant of the early Australian coinages in the homosexual field"

I’m sorry 😢

Shit

Bless the berlin public library system, but I now need to buy a copy to lend to everyone i know

So good!!!

long meetings & annoying people, but it’s also real & it brings joy

jockeying for social power. Particularly re online discourse, but not only. I’m thinking in particular of Tony Tulathimutte‘s Rejection. Which I know was Doing A Thing, & compellingly & well, but I fucking hated it.
But for Porter, radical political commitment is part of how we live: & it means

It’s extraordinary on (queer) sex & (queer) grief, which are kinda my Major Themes at the moment. But I also keep coming back to what it says about political commitment as part of our lives. I’ve read a few books recently that treat political involvement completely cynically - that it’s all about

I read most of it on a plane which I don’t recommend, unless you like weeping on planes. But.

When I did a mushroom identification walk, the instructor cheerfully told us what effects the different poisonous mushrooms have & there’s one that makes you see in black & white for a few days. Less mysterious, but still pretty interesting