Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City. - ThreadSky

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

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yessfun.com•7 days ago

We love you! Your writing gives us strength!

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•7 days ago

thank you! that's my hope! happy V-day and may our paths cross one of these days....

yessfun.com•7 days ago

I’d love nothing more :)

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

Today I'm announcing the rainbow @haymarketbooks.org and I made over the last eleven years, starting with Men Explain Things to Me in 2014, with the final of the six colors coming out in May, the yellow No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

One of the brilliant strategic pieces of iconography in modern history was Gilbert Baker's creation of the rainbow flag in 1978, turning a sublime natural phenomenon into a symbol of queer visibility, diversity, and liberation.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

I have been blessed to be a San Franciscan nearly all my adult life. Liberation is contagious, and I benefitted greatly from living among people whose liberation themselves from repressive gender norms encouraged me to ask questions and do so.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

We are now facing a government hoping to make repression and oppression contagious instead. Generosity, inclusivity, accuracy, and kindness are all in your arsenal of resistance, and so is flying a rainbow flag.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

I hope bookshops will use these six books to make a little rainbow on the shelf or in the window when No Straight Road comes out. It's been a joy making this gesture of queer liberation solidarity over the past eleven years.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•8 days ago

Special bonus rainbow content: rainbow over the cottage in which George Orwell lived from 1936 until he and his wife moved to London to work against the Nazis during the war. He wrote Homage to Catalonia here, the real beginning of his brilliance as an anti-fascist writer and defender of truth.

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