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Pose

10 Tuesday Jul 2018

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American Horror Story, black lives matter, drag, drag queen, fashion, gay, Harlem, LGBT, New York, paris is burning, pose, queer, Rupaul, Rupaul's Drag Race, ryan murphy, supermodel, trans, transgender

I love, love, love this show! Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) introduces us to “An LGBTQ community that expressed glamorous creativity by staging elaborate and defiant spectacles of fashion, dancing, and exquisitely pointed wit, where like-minded people found each other, built communities as distinctive “houses,” and, more powerfully still, choose each other as family.” House Jernigan, serving fishy realness, hunty!

 

 

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Porcelain – Moby (a memoir)

26 Friday Aug 2016

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I read Porcelain in one 4-hour bathtub inhalation yesterday, and mostly loved it. Moby’sstruggles to find work as a DJ and  his references to those first classic house tracks that I remember from my late teens pretty much smothered his petty irritants (his veganism, alcoholism and Christianity). Any DJ or dance music fan will love most of this memoir.

“Frankie Knuckles had invented house music, lived on the Lower East Side, and was deified. Junior Vasquez owned the floor at Sound Factory, where he played 12-hour sets and was a revered legend living in Chelsea. Danny Tenaglia was in the house music pantheon: he too played long remarkable sets and lived downtown. Larry Levan was a dance music god and he had just started a residency at Choice in the East Village. David Morales was seen as the biggest of the New York house music DJs: he owned the floor at Red Zone, and in an unconventional move, he lived in Midtown. Tony Humphries existed in a strange mythical realm of his own. His sets were long and legendary, his remixes were flawless, he lived in the unknown recesses of Newark, New Jersey.and was in residence at Zanzibar,”

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Chinese Bastards

19 Tuesday Jul 2016

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I am Mary Tyler Moore! (ish)

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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I’ve always wanted to live in Manhattan, if only for a year, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. While I was not-legally-married to a man with money for a decade, it was more his than mine. I am a social worker by trade, so a cute little studio in the Village just ain’t happenin’, due to budgetary constraints…and I also have two hairy gremlins that depend on me. I have made the move to Miami though, and while it’s not New York, I still feel very Mary Tyler Moore-ish, getting my own little place, working in a big city, being independent…I’m gonna make it after all!

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A 1st Grader’s Lovely Poem

01 Thursday May 2014

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A 1st Grader's Lovely Poem

This poem was spotted in a New York City public school on the Lower East Side by photographer Jason Gardner. The school had received a small grant for Gardner to take portraits of families that might not otherwise have the means to do so. While waiting for one family to set up, this poem, penned by a first grader in the after school program, caught his eye, especially that last line — in a crowded city like New York, you cannot underestimate the value of personal space. He took a picture, shared it on Facebook and this mysterious child’s poem is being seen around the world. It’s since been circulated on sites like Jezebel and Yahoo, and hailed as the best poem of the month by NPR. NPR’s Studio 360 shared “Creative spelling aside, this young artist clearly has a gift for creating a scene. I think “We made personal space,” is an especially lovely thought – only all the more impressive, coming from a six or seven-year-old.”

“We did the soft wind.

We danst slowly.

We swrld Aroned.

We danst soft.

We lisin to the mozik.

We danst to the mozik.

We made personal space.”

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Bianca Del Rio Reads a Bitch

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

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@thejohnjernigan, Adore Delano, all T no shade, Bianca Del Rio, buy John's book on Amazon, culture, dating, drag queen, drag show, funny, gay, humor, LGBT, love, new orleans, New York, queer, relationships, Rupaul, Rupaul's Drag Race, sex, sissy that walk

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Bianca Del Rio

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

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All Tea No Shade, Bianca Del Rio, buy John's book on Amazon, culture, drag queen, female impersonator, funny, gay, homo, humor, LGBT, Logo, new orleans, New York, Oz New Orleans, queer, Rupaul, Rupaul's Drag Race, the French Quarter

Bianca was New Orleans royalty when I lived there. Now she’s taken over the Big Apple. She’s funny as shit, irreverent, sharp tongued, but ALL TEA NO SHADE…she’s not a bitch, instead a likable, talented, smart and youthful (ish) lady. She is a role model to young whatever ethnicity she is? drag queens everywhere. Bianca is on the new season of Rupaul’s Drag Race, and won the first challenge already! Condragulations, I hope you win it all, 504 ya heard?

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Damn Obama and Queers!

27 Thursday Feb 2014

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Damn Obama and Queers!

They ain’t talkin’ about me…wait, maybe they are..? I do love the theater, dahling

The ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church is led by Dr. James David Manning, a man who has been outspokenly critical of the Obama administration and the progression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights over the course of the past six years.

“This is devastating what Obama is doing to the black man and the black woman, and how the white homo is now moving into the black neighborhoods looking for black men that have been converted into homosexuality. But black woman let me say something to you: you have a very hard time competing against a white homosexual male. He’s usually got money — a white homo usually has an American Express card. He usually has an opportunity at the theater — homos love the theater. They love to go out to dinners, parties, they love that kind of a thing… black people need to rise up in mass and recognize the utter destruction that Obama is going in to destroy the black family with these homosexual statements that he has done and release of demons.”

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It’s So Cold in the D

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

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ATL, atlanta, Beyonce, Biggie, black culture, Brooklyn, Detroit, funny, gay, hip hop, humor, Jay-Z, LGBT, Michigan, music, music reviews, New York, R&B, racism, rap, the blacker the berry, the Bronx, the D, the struggle, thug life, Tupac, ya'll ain't bout dis life

tbaby represent, Tupac alive

ya’ll ain’t bout dis life

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On the Come Up – Hannah Weyer

10 Monday Feb 2014

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On the Come Up - Hannah Weyer

Based on a true story, an impassioned and propulsive debut novel about a headstrong girl from Far Rockaway, Queens, who is trying to find her place in the world

Written in an urban vernacular that’s electrifying and intimate, On the Come Up introduces a heroine whose voice is irrepressible, dynamic, and unstintingly honest. Thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. While attending a school for pregnant teens, AnnMarie comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months before she’s due to give birth—she lands a lead role. For a time, AnnMarie soars—acting for the camera, flying to the Sundance Film Festival, seeing her face on-screen. But when the film fades from view and the realities of her life set in, AnnMarie’s grit and determination are the only tools left to keep her moving forward.

“It came to her just before sleep, an idea crystallizing in the dark—how maybe the size of your world ain’t what matter, whether it expand or shrink up or expand again—how maybe it was about finding your place in it. Hurdles to jump. You jump. Erase the lines, draw new ones. Chart a course and follow.”

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By Nightfall – Michael Cunningham

02 Monday Dec 2013

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By Nightfall - Michael Cunningham

A story about loving, and knowing you shouldn’t love, and having your heart broken

I love you, Michael Cunningham

quotes from By Nightfall:

“Please, God, send me something to adore.”

“He’s one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won’t, possibly can’t, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.”

“Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?”

“What marriage doesn’t involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn’t unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”

“You know what I am?” he says.

“What?”

“I’m an ordinary person.”

“Come on.”

“I know. Who isn’t an ordinary person? How horribly presumptuous to want to be anything else. But I have to tell you. I’ve been treated as something special for so long and I’ve tried my hardest to be something special but I’m not, I’m not exceptional, I’m smart enough, but I’m not brilliant and I’m not spiritual or even all that focused. I think I can stand that, but I’m not sure if the people around me can.”

“Peter glances out at the falling snow. Oh, little man. You have brought down your house not through passion but by neglect. You who dared to think of yourself as dangerous. You are guilty not of the epic transgressions but the tiny crimes. You have failed in the most base and human of ways – you have not imagined the lives of others.”

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My Korean Deli – Ben Ryder Howe

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

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I loved the nomenclature of this book, and getting to use the word nomenclature…the author(a senior editor for the Paris Review) and his wife (lawyer) buy a Brooklyn bodega for his hardcore, traditional, no-nonsense Korean mother-in-law. He ends up working there 4-5 nights a week, blocks from the projects and the polluted Gowanus canal.

“Howe and his relatives do spend an awful lot of time failing. The store makes less money than expected even as it is hit with massive tax bills; vendors and deliverymen screw over the new owners, leaving cartons of unwanted products on the floor of the store and then invoicing later. The city also tries to confiscate the deli’s refrigerators and nails Howe for selling tobacco to a minor. Howe’s evocation of the financial knife-edge on which he finds himself is so convincing that even if you step away from the book and go out into the world, you’ll still thrum with low-level panic.”

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