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rebeccadumaurier · 4 months

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2023 Books in Review

a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.

changed my brain chemistry

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)

The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng

Severance, Ling Ma

He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Network Effect, Martha Wells

top-tier stuff

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt

The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)

The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

Bliss Montage, Ling Ma

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

good, well-written

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Witch King, Martha Wells

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)

Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)

The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen

The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat

Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

flawed, but enjoyable

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Flux, Jinwoo Chong

Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood

The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray

Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Likeness, Tana French

The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)

The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

good, well-written, but not my cup of tea

The Good House, Tananarive Due

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)

Against Silence, Frank Bidart

flawed, less enjoyable

Tenth of December, George Saunders

Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)

Authority, Jeff VanderMeer

Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

Babel, R. F. Kuang

The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid

not ranking

These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin

On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)

#ange.log #ange.book

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helpersofindie · 1 year

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Hello lovely helpers!! <3 May I please ask for some POC female faceclaims? Between 21-40? Who have those bad bitch vibes, strong and alluring, please? Thank you so much for your kindness <3 :)

under the cut, you can find 165 woc faceclaims who i think fit the vibe! i hope this helps!

maitreyi ramakrishnan (21)

josie totah (21) — josie is a trans woman!

miah madden (21)

rowan blanchard (21)

halle bailey (22)

yara shahidi (22)

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rhythmicgymnasticsnews · 11 months

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PanAmerican Championships 2023 Junior Results

All-Around Top 8 Individuals

(only 2 per country counted in the top 8)

Rin Keys 121.850

Megan Chu 114.850

Amanda Bosch 110.050

Veronika Drevylo 109.500

Keila Lima de Souza 103.950

Fernanda Regalo 103.900

Valentina Moya 102.800

Jimena Dominguez 98.300

All-Around Groups

Brazil 53.300

USA 51.050

Mexico 43.250

Canada 42.650

Chile 34.500

Colombia 33.600

Argentina 30.650

Bolivia 21.600

Full results here

#rhythmic gymnastics #panams 2023 #panamerican champtionships 2023

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britneyshakespearess · 4 months

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2023 Recap

Goal: 35 books

Books read: 50 11 nonfiction 39 fiction

Pages read: 15,896

My 5 star reads (in order by which I read them):

The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden

The Catcher in the Rye (reread) J.D. Salinger

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer

Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier

White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor)

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover

Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy

Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong

Best book I read this year:

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Worst book I read this year:

In the Woods Tana French

The books I thought I was going to love but didn't:

The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Idlewild James Frankie Thomas

Biography of X Catherine Lacey

How Music Works David Byrne

Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller

The book I didn't expect to love but did:

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

The books I haven't stopped thinking about:

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich Lament for Julia Susan Taubes

The complete list and my ratings (in order by which I read them):

Ninth House Leigh Bardugo (reread) 4/5 Hell Bent Leigh Bardugo 3.5/5 The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden 5/5 What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller 4/5 Spells for Forgetting Adrienne Young 3/5 Elektra Jennifer Saint 3/5 How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm 4.5/5 Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 4.5/5 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (reread) 5/5 Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine 4.5/5 The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Malcom Gaskill 4/5 Milk Fed Melissa Broder 4.5/5 Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh 3.5/5 Bunny Mona Awad 3.5/5 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer 5/5 A Crack-Up at the Race Riots Harmony Korine 4/5 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 5/5 Delta of Venus Anais Nin 4.5/5 The Only One Left Riley Sager 4/5 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv 4/5 The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier 5/5 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas 4/5 At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich 4.5/5 How Music Works David Byrne 3.5/5 Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises Rebecca Solnit 3/5 Boy Parts Eliza Clark 4/5 White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods 5/5 Lament for Julia Susan Taubes 4.5/5 In the Woods Tana French 2/5 Biography of X Catherine Lacey 4/5 The Near Witch Victoria Schwab 4/5 Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross 4.5/5 We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) 5/5 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 5/5 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 3/5 Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino 4.5/5 Jawbone Monica Ojeda 5/5 Small Favors Erin A. Craig. 3/5 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 4/5 Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller 3.5/5 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 4.5/5 Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan 5/5 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 5/5 Educated Tara Westover 5/5 The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 3.5/5 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 4/5 The Guest List Lucy Foley 4/5 Ruthless Vows Rebecca Ross 4/5 Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy 5/5 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 5/5

#books and reading #booklr #book review #book blog #bookblr #books #books & libraries #literature #bookish #reading #best of 2023

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virtuouswhitehatorganization · 1 year

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Megan McDuffie (Villainous Oc)

Name: Megan McDuffie (later Kirby) Age: Same Age As Omega Nuclear DOB: May 3rd Occupation: Journalist (Nuclear News); White Hat Organization Member Affiliations: Omega Nuclear/Todd Kirby; Pololina/Paulina Polo Headcannon Voice Actor: Megalyn Echikunwoke (English); Fernanda Robles (Spanish) Love Interest: Omega Nuclear/Todd Kirby (boyfriend/future husband) Relatives: Billy Mcduffie (father); Ruth McDuffie (mother) ; Moesha McDuffie(sister) Ethnicity: African-American Sexuality: Straight Residence: Ruthford Spring/Atom City Personality: She is a very determined and steadfast journalist who will do what she can to get the facts on the story and investigate a case. She despises censorship especially when it comes to things concerning PEACE who she believes has become more corrupt. She has a huge respect for heroes and hates it when those don't live up to it use the label to get away with what they want. She also has a skeptical eye with what is being put out and tries to dig deeper. As mentioned, her respect for heroes stems into her admiration for Omega which then evolved into an attraction then even love for him. She has great contempt for Miss Heed for using him and hates how she was able to get away with her exploits for so long. As a result, she is later very protective of Omega due to what what was done to him. She him by Miss Heed. She can be a bit headstrong and can get into turmoil with people even villains. As a result, she can get into risky situations due to running her mouth. She also has great respect for her father due to his status as a journalist and wants to live up to his legacy. She is a big daddy's girl and shows it often. She also is on good terms with Pololina and thinks she will one day be a great heroine on her own and sees her gradually as a close friend. Background: A journalist from the Nuclear News she has been delving into many hero topics as her focus, especially those concerning her city's resident hero, Omega Nuclear. She has always been eager to spread stories about him, especially his encounters with Coyote, and even had multiple encounters interviewing him. This regular close interactions with each other had developed into admiration for one another and even hints of attraction. However, things got rocky when Miss Heed teamed up with him and Pololina took a break from him being her mentor. She noted how Omega became less his equal and more like a glorified bodyguard alongside the supposedly redeemed Coyote which she thought was too suspicious to be true. She still kept up stories about Omega alongside his new dynamic with Miss Heed and Coyote until she realized how much easy it was redeeming villains and getting things she wanted. So, she began investigating and getting into details about what Miss Heed was really doing (with Pololina also giving her support as well) until Miss Heed sent both Omega and Coyote after her in order so she could brainwash her into singing her praises. She then did nothing but write articles about Heed until her spell over her was broken and she was freed. She then resumed her previous position and was happy to see Omega was back and Pololina was his regular sidekick again. It took sometime to really trust but they gradually began to see each other romantically and eventually becoming a couple then later in life marrying. She would also stay interested in trying to expose PEACE's corruption especially after the Heed incident and believes that the Golden Rule has some ties to what happened. * She's met with Creepy Charlie for stories and is friends with her. * Her father like her before was a journalist and is still writing for the same paper. * She is inspired by Louis Lane. * She will have three daughters with Omega Nuclear. * She will become a member of the White Hat Organization. * She is named after the late Dwayne McDuffie. * Her sister is a cashier at Schwarzer Burger Hut. * She will actually meet other White Hat Organization tied heroes and form a network with them including Mecha Max and Chi Sage. Created through picrew.me/image_maker/216971

#villainous oc #villainous #villainos oc #villainos #oc x cannon #oc x cannon piaring

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citylightsbooks · 4 years

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5 Questions with Megan Fernandes, Author of Good Boys

Megan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015) and the new book of poems, Good Boys (published by Tin House). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, the Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She is a poetry reader for The Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She reads from her new book Good Boys with special guests at City Lights Bookstore on Tuesday, February 25th.

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City Lights: If you’ve been to City Lights before, what’s your memory of the visit? If you haven’t been here before, what are you expecting?

Megan Fernandes: Of all the places I’m reading this Spring (and it’s probably not politic to say this), I am most excited to read at City Lights. I’ve never been, but I understood at a very young age that the bookstore symbolized possibility, spontaneity, digression, lostness, community, etc. As a teenager, I read a lot of Beat literature, my favorites being Dharma Bums, In the Night Café, and everything Ginsberg. I was compelled by their portraits of America’s expansiveness. And I also just think as an immigrant kid not born in the USA, the Beats gave me some sense of American geography. I went to Colorado for the first time last year and I had this memory of my first impression of Colorado as a place described in On the Road. When traveling across the country, I often have Ferlinghetti’s feverish, twitchy, carnivalesque poetics in my head. I also think in this indirect way, Beat literature shaped some of my thoughts around feminist thinking as I was conscious of my orientation as outside certain privileges of the “male, womanizing adventurer” often romanticized in Beat lit. I had to interrogate what it meant to feel intimacies with Ginsberg and Duncan who were destabilizing masculinities and cultural logics of hate.

And so what I learned from City Lights and Beat lit is really something about the relationship between myth-making and counter-culture communities. I’m understanding the truly expansive network of the movement in so much more detail right now while reading an advanced copy of a fabulous new book called The Beats: A Literary History by Steven Belletto.

What are you reading right now?

I’m reading a book called Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, co-written by Dapper Dan himself and my good friend, Mikael Awake. It’s a history of Dapper Dan’s iconic work in fashion, of course, while being really intimate. And it’s just as much a history of his family’s internal dynamics and, through his family, New York City at large. In particular, 1970’s NYC is so vividly, brilliantly wrought in this book.

There’s this one section where Dap is at Iona College at a lecture on protohistory and the professor, a Czech immigrant, tells the class that “In order for man to have survived during those ancient times… he must have had powers that he doesn’t have now. The only people that could possibly still have these powers today are the black and brown people on the planet” and when Dap hears this, he is transfixed. He says: “This is one of the most esteemed scholars at Iona College telling a packed lecture hall that black and brown people were the only ones on the planet who still had spiritual powers. How come this was my first time hearing about that? I looked around. I was the only black student in the class. I wasn’t tired anymore. He had my full attention… I said to myself, This is what I need to know. This is how I need to formulate myself.” I’m loving how the book captures these intense moments of transformation. I love that word choice: formulate. What poetic agency is modeled in that word? I needed that word the moment I read it.

Recently, I’ve also read Samiya Bashir’s Field Theories and Edgar Kunz’s Tap Out. Samiya wrote this legitimately weird and imaginative book that feels like it’s made out of the time-space continuum. Some cosmic materiality is really showing up in that book. I remember this line: “A body. A zoo. A lovely savannah. Walls of clear, clean glass” and I’m just on a ride with the musicality of her shifting assonance. Plus, I know that writers like June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara are operating influences/specters of the book and you can feel that energy. Edgar’s book is more narrative and quieter, but so devastating. I sort of get what makes his speakers tenderize if that makes sense. I think it’s the same phenomena that tenderizes me, too.

Some of my favorite novels of recent years includes A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims, The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch, Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi, and very recently, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.

What book or writer do you always find yourself recommending?

I think Jean Toomer’s Cane is the most beautiful book of the 20th century. I remember just being blown away by its call and response, the repeating imagery of sun and smoke and pines. That book is so stunning. Other astounding work that I always recommend includes Mebvh McGuckian’s Captain Lavender, Anne Carson’s The Autobiography of Red, Evie Shockley’s The New Black, Franz Wright’s Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, Eleni Sikelianos’ Body Clock, Jorie Graham’s The Errancy, Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, and Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann’s translations of Rilke. Those are my hard-hitters. Those books are why I became a poet.

What writers/artists/people do you find the most influential to the writing of this book and/or your writing in general?

You know, I collected poems while I was writing and editing this book. And I think those specific poems created a kind of constellation around me, almost protective, that kept me writing. Some of those poems include “The Long Recovery” by Ellen Bass, “A Matter of Balance,” by Evie Shockley, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I am Not Seaworthy” by Toni Morrison, “Becoming Regardless” by Jack Spicer, “A New Bride Almost Visible in Latin” by Jack Gilbert, “To the Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks and many, many others. Definitely O’Hara as well. He never leaves me. The most important poem of that little self-curated archive is Frank Bidart’s “Visions at 74” where he writes: “To love existence / is to love what is indifferent to you.” I remember reading that line and just losing it. I have been guided by so much of Bidart. And maybe my book is a little bit about how to sustain rage in the face of that which is indifferent to you, what cannot love you (both personally and abstractly). How do you sustain rage so as to not fall into despair?

I also listened to a variety of music while writing and editing. A mix between contemporary sad kid hip-hop, old school jazz and blues, gospel, 80’s bands, pop culture queens, 1970’s hypnotic modal vamp, classical Spanish guitar, electronic pop, really pretty varied. A few names that come to mind: KOTA the Friend, NoName, Vince Staples, Travis Scott, Miles Davis Quintet, Bessie Smith, Sam Cooke, The Knocks, Solange, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Big Mama Thornton, Miriam Makeba, Kamasi Washington, Thompson Twins, Misfits, Bowie, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Cher, Whitney Houston, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Memphis Slim, Dinah Washington, Alberto Iglesias, Gustavo Santaolalla, Holychild, Blood Orange, etc.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

My grandpa played violin on a ship that sailed between Tanga, Tanzania and Goa, India. I never had the chance to meet him. He died when my dad was sixteen, but I always thought about what that journey might have looked and felt like, its many hardships, but also the wonder of gazing out at the sea playing strings. For that reason, I’d love to open a bookstore that focused specifically on Indian Ocean diaspora and sold books exclusively by authors working, uncovering, or investigating the literature of that oceanic rim. I think there is something rich in thinking about books not necessarily focused on nation-statehood but thinking more about a kind of social-imaginary with a literature that is messy in its conceptualization and crosses, migrates, misses, and mythologizes across many cultures over generations. You could have sections on food, underwater exploration, piracy, long-distance intimacy, trade routes, empire, transnational feminism. I like the idea of a bookstore that is anti-genre and instead, organized by associative thinking and imagination. It would be a logistical nightmare. You would never find what you were looking for, but you might find something you didn’t know existed.

So yes, I’d vote for a little homegrown network of bookstores in India, East Africa, and actually, maybe one of them in Lisbon which is a city that has a long (and problematic) history with the Indian Ocean. I’ve spent a lot of time in Lisbon the past eight years of my life, spending time visiting family and researching the history of the Portuguese empire especially as it relates to my family history (my folks are third generation East African Portuguese colonized Indians). I have a lot of conflicting homelands which is a way of saying that there are times when I feel like I have nothing but a rootless present. That’s something I investigate in my work, that weird (a)temporality. And I’m drawn to the particular light of Lisbon which is quite unusual. I’d call the bookstore “Malaika” which means “Angel” in Swahili and is the favorite folk song of my parents who grew up in Tanzania. I like the idea of a bookstore in Lisbon with the name in Swahili run by a Goan-Canadian-American woman. That’s the world I grew up in… one of multiplicities.

#Megan Fernandas #City Lights Bookstore #Tin House Books #Good Boys

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f-airytale · 3 years

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famous girls pt.1

Addison Rae

Adriana Lima

Alissa Violet

Amelie Zilber

Amybeth McNulty

Ariana Grande

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Avani Gregg

Billie Eilish

Camila Mendes

Charli D'amelio

Clairo

Cynthia Parker

Devon Carson

Dixie D'amelio

Dove Cameron

Dua Lipa

Ellie Zeiler

Ester Exposito

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funbabe

Hailee Steinfeld

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Isa Forneck

Isabella Gomez

Jayden Bartels

Jules LeBlanc

Kendall Jenner

Kennedy Walsh

Kylie Jenner

Loren Gray

Lydia Night

Madelaine Petsh

Madelyn Cline

Mads Lewis

Maddie Ziegler

Madison Beer

Malina Weissman

Megan Thee Stallion

Melanie Martinez

Millie Bobby Brown

Nailea Devora

Nessa Barrett

Olivia Ponton

Olivia Rodrigo

Sabrina Carpenter

Sadie Sink

Sissy Sheridan

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yessoupy · 3 years

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out lgbtq+ olympians!

this is my third attempt at this post. I am using the list compiled by outsports here. i highly encourage you to click through and read about each of these athletes.

below the cut is the list of the 182* out lgbtq+ athletes at the tokyo games. from the outsports list i have added some scheduling information -- if they've already competed, how they did, and if they are still competing/are yet to compete, when you can catch them. all times are US central daylight, because that's where I live.

representation in sport is SO important for lgbtq+ kids. allies, PLEASE make it a point to post about these athletes on your social media. making the olympic team is a HUGE accomplishment for anyone, and the social barriers that exist for most lgbtq+ athletes make it even MORE amazing.

Arranged by alphabetical order of sport. I have bolded the names of athletes who are still competing or will compete later in the Olympics. Athletes' names are italicized when they win a medal.

lgbtq+ medal count lol:

gold: 11 silver: 12 bronze: 9

3x3 Basketball

Stefanie Dolson (USA) - Team USA won GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basketball

Julie Allemand (Belgium) - Belgium lost to Japan in the quarterfinals.

Marjorie Carpréaux (Belgium)

Kim Mestdagh (Belgium)

Ann Wauters (Belgium)

Sue Bird (USA) - Sue was a co-flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies, as voted upon by her fellow Olympic athletes. Team USA's won gold!

Chelsea Gray (USA)

Brittney Griner (USA)

Breanna Stewart (USA)

Diana Taurasi (USA)

Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage (Puerto Rico) - Puerto Rico finished group play 0-3 in Group C.

Dayshalee Salamán (Puerto Rico)

Leilani Mitchell (Australia) - Australia was defeated in the quarterfinals by Team USA.

Shaina Pellington (Canada) - Canada finished group play 1-2 in Group A.

BMX Freestyle - NB: You'll find BMX listed under "cycling" when looking at online scheduling.

Perris Benegas (USA) - Perris competes in BMX Freestyle and placed fourth.

Hannah Roberts (USA) - Hannah also competes in BMX Freestyle and won the silver medal!!

Chelsea Wolfe (USA, reserve)

Boxing

Rashida Ellis (USA) - Rashida competes in the women's lightweight event and was defeated in the Round of 16.

Kellie Harrington (Ireland) - Kellie, the flagbearer for Team Ireland, competed in the women's lightweight event and won gold!

Michaela Walsh (Ireland) - Michaela competed in the women's featherweight event. She lost in the Round of 16 to the Italian, Irma Testa, 0-5.

Nesthy Petecio (Philippines) - Nesthy competes in women's featherweight and won the silver medal!!

Irish Bagno (Philippines) - Irish competes in women's flyweight and was defeated in the Round of 16.

Canoe Slalom

Evy Leibfarth (USA) - Evy placed 20th in the K-1 slalom with a Run 1 score of 125.85 (lower scores are better). This put her into the semifinal where she placed 12th and missed qualifying for the final by two places. Evy placed 18th in the C-1 semifinal.

Florence Maheu (Canada) - Florence placed 13th in the K-1 slalom with a Run 1 score of 114.29. In the semifinals she placed 23rd.

Cycling

Georgia Simmerling (Canada) - Georgia competed in the women's team pursuit on the track. Team Canada placed 4th.

Valerie Demey (Belgium) - Valerie competed in the women's road race but did not finish.

Diving

Tom Daley (Britain) - This 4-time Olympian won his first gold medal in Tokyo on the 10m platform synchro with his diving partner Matty Lee. Tom won bronze in the 10m platform!

Anton Down-Jenkins (New Zealand) - Anton's event is the 3m springboard individual. Anton placed 8th in the final!

Equestrian

Cathrine Dufour (Denmark) - Cathrine competed in Team Dressage, in which her team placed 4th with a score of 7540.

Edward Gal (Netherlands) - Edward also competed in Team Dressage, finishing in 5th with a score of 7479.5.

Hans Peter Minderhoud (Netherlands) - Hans Peter is Edward's teammate.

Carl Hester (Britain) - Carl competed in Team Dressage, earning the bronze medal with a score of 7723!

Domien Michiels (Belgium) - Domien competed in the Team Dressage event, ranking 10th in the qualifying rounds with a score of 6702.5, missing the finals by 2 places.

Nick Wagman (USA, reserve)

Fencing

Astrid Guyart (France) - Astrid earned a silver medal in the women's team foil event!!

Field Hockey

Sarah Jones (Britain) - The British team won bronze!

Leah Wilkinson (Britain)

Susannah Townsend (Britain)

Grace O’Hanlon (New Zealand) - New Zealand was defeated by the Netherlands in the quarterfinal.

Anne Veenendaal (Netherlands) - The Dutch team won gold!

Golf

Mel Reid (Britain) - Mel ended the tournament in 55th.

Alena Sharp (Canada) - Alena ended the tournament in 49th.

Handball

Babi Arenhart (Brazil) - Brazil finished 1-1-3 in group play in the women's tournament.

Nathalie Hagman (Sweden) - Sweden finished the tournament in 4th.

Alexandra Lacrabère (France) - France won gold!

Amandine Leynaud (France)

Judo

Alice Bellandi (Italy) - Alice's quest for gold ended in the semifinals of the women's 70kg event.

Amandine Buchard (France) - Amandine competed in the women's 52kg event. She earned SILVER! The gold was earned by Uta Abe of Japan. She earned gold in the mixed team event!

Nina Cutro-Kelly (USA) - Nina competes in the women's +78kg event and she was defeated in the Round of 32.

Jasmin Grabowski (Germany) - Jasmin competes in the women's +78kg event. She was defeated in the Round of 32. In the mixed team event, she won bronze!

Natalie Powell (Britain) - Natalie competes in the women's 78kg event. She was defeated in the Round of 16 by South Korean Yoon Hyunji.

Tessie Savelkouls (Netherlands) - Tessa competes in the women's +78kg event and was defeated in the Round of 32.

Sanne van Dijke (Netherlands) - Sanne competed in the women's 70kg event and earned a BRONZE MEDAL!

Guusje Steenhuis (Netherlands) - Guusje competes in the women's -78kg. She was eliminated from the competition in the repechage contest after the quarterfinal.

Raz Hershko (Israel) - Raz competes in the women's +78kg event where she placed 9th. She won a bronze medal in the mixed team event!

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Rut Castillo Galindo (Mexico) - Rut competed in the Individual All-Around, where she placed 22nd in qualifications with a combined score of 82.750.

Rowing

Saskia Budgett (Britain, reserve)

Kendall Chase (USA) - Kendall and her women's four teammates won Final B with a time of 6:33.65.

Gia Doonan (USA) - Gia was part of the women's eight, qualifying for Final A by winning their heat. Gia and her team placed 4th in Final A.

Meghan O’Leary (USA) - Meghan competes in women's quadruple sculls. She and her team, including Ellen Tomek, placed 4th in Final B.

Jessica Thoennes (USA) - Jessica is Gia's teammate in the women's eight and placed 4th in Final A.

Ellen Tomek (USA) - Ellen is Meghan's teammate in the women's quadruple sculls.

Emma Twigg (New Zealand) - Emma won gold in women's single sculls!!!!!!!!!!!

Julian Venonsky (USA) - Julian competes in the men's eight and placed 4th in Final A.

Maarten Hurkmans (Netherlands) - Maarten competes in the men's eight. His team qualified directly to Final A in the heats. Julian placed 5th in Final A.

Katarzyna Zillmann (Poland) - Katarzyna competes in women's quad sculls and won the silver medal with her team!!

Rugby

Elissa Alarie (Canada) - Canada placed 9th in the women's tournament.

Britt Benn (Canada)

Ghislaine Landry (Canada)

Kaili Lukan (Canada)

Kelly Brazier (New Zealand) - New Zealand won the gold medal, defeating France in the final!

Gayle Broughton (New Zealand)

Portia Woodman (New Zealand)

Ruby Tui (New Zealand)

Isadora Cerullo (Brazil) - Team Brazil placed 11th in the women's tournament.

Marina Fioravanti (Brazil)

Megan Jones (Britain) - Team GB placed 4th in the women's tournament, losing to Fiji in the bronze medal match.

Celia Quansah (Britain)

Alev Kelter (USA) - Team USA placed 6th in the women's tournament.

Kristen Thomas (USA)

Lauren Doyle (USA)

Sharni Williams (Australia) - Team Australia placed 5th in the women's tournament.

Sailing

Jolanta Ogar (Poland) - Jolanta's event is the women's 470, and she won the silver medal with her sailing partner Agnieszka Skrzypulec!

Cecilia Carranza Saroli (Argentina) - Cecilia's event is mixed Nacra 17 and she and her teammate placed 7th.

Shooting

Jolyn Beer (Germany) - Jolyn placed 17th in women's 10m air rifle. She placed 6th in the women's smallbore rifle, 3 positions.

Aleksandra Jarmolińska (Poland) - Aleksandra competes in women's skeet, where she placed 19th in the qualifying round with a shot average of 0.912.

Andri Eleftheriou (Cyprus) - Andri also competes in women's skeet, placing 7th in qualifying with a shot average of 0.952.

Katarina Kowplos (Australia) - Katarina competed in three events during the Olympics. She was ranked 45th in the women's 10m air rifle; 36th in women's 50m air rifle, 3 positions; and the Australian team placed 22nd in the mixed 10m air rifle.

Skateboarding

Margielyn Didal (Philippines) - Margielyn placed seventh in the women's street final.

Annie Guglia (Canada) - Annie placed 19th in the women's street final.

Poppy Starr Olsen (Australia) - Poppy competed in women's park, and placed 5th in the final!

Alexis Sablone (USA) - Alexis finished just out of the medal picture in women's street, placing 4th.

Alana Smith (USA) - Alana, nonbinary, placed 20th in women's street at this Games.

Soccer - way to represent!!!!

Yenny Acuña Berrios (Chile) - Team Chile finished 0-3 in Group E play

Christiane Endler (Chile)

Fernanda Pinilla (Chile)

Andressa Alves (Brazil, reserve)

Bárbara Barbosa (Brazil) - Team Brazil was defeated by Canada in the quarterfinals.

Marta da Silva (Brazil)

Formiga (Brazil)

Letícia Izidoro (Brazil)

Aline Reis (Brazil)

Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada) - Team Canada won the gold!

Stephanie Labbé (Canada)

Erin McLeod (Canada, reserve)

Quinn (Canada) - Quinn is a trans non-binary athlete!!!

Kailen Sheridan (Canada)

Rachel Daly (Britain) - Team GB was defeated by Australia in the quarterfinals.

Fran Kirby (Britain)

Jill Scott (Britain)

Demi Stokes (Britain)

Carly Telford (Britain)

Tierna Davidson (USA) - Team USA won bronze!

Adrianna Franch (USA)

Kelly O’Hara (USA)

Megan Rapinoe (USA)

Anouk Dekker (Netherlands, reserve)

Sisca Folkertsma (Netherlands) - Team Netherlands was defeated by Team USA in the quarterfinals.

Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands)

Sherida Spitse (Netherlands)

Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands)

Shanice van de Sanden (Netherlands)

Stefanie Van Der Gragt (Netherlands)

Merel van Dongen (Netherlands)

Abby Erceg (New Zealand) - Team New Zealand finished 0-3 in Group G play.

Hannah Wilkinson (New Zealand)

Magda Eriksson (Sweden) - Team Sweden won silver!

Lina Hurtig (Sweden)

Hedvig Lindahl (Sweden)

Caroline Seger (Sweden)

Emily Gielnik (Australia) - Team Australia finished 4th in the tournament.

Sam Kerr (Australia)

Chloe Logarzo (Australia)

Teagan Micah (Australia)

Tameka Yallop (Australia)

Softball

Ally Carda (USA) - Team USA earned a silver medal!

Amanda Chidester (USA)

Taylor Edwards (USA, reserve)

Haylie McCleney (USA)

Larissa Franklin (Canada) - Team Canada earned a bronze medal!

Joey Lye (Canada)

Kaia Parnaby (Australia) - Team Australia ended group play with a 1-4 record.

Anissa Urtez (Mexico) - Team Mexico finished just out of the medals in 4th place.

Surfing

Silvana Lima (Brazil) - Silviana competed in women's shortboard, scoring an 8.3 against Carissa Moore, eventual gold medal winner, in Quarterfinal 3.

Sofia Mulanovich (Peru) - Sofia competed in women's shortboard, scoring 9.90 against Carissa Moore in Heat 5.

Swimming

Rachele Bruni (Italy) - Rachele competed in the women's 10km open water event and placed 14th.

Ana Marcela Cunha (Brazil) - Ana Marcela won gold in the women's 10km open water!

Amini Fonua (Tonga) - Amini qualified for the Olympics in the men's 100m breaststroke. In the heats he was disqualified. :/ I haven't seen what it was he did to be DQ'd, but my guess (I swam breaststroke in high school and college) is that he did not finish his breakout dolphin kick before beginning his stroke off the blocks/wall. Will update if I figure it out.

Mélanie Henique (France) - Mélanie placed 11th in the women's 50m freestyle with a time of 24.63. She tied with Simone Manuel of America.

Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (Finland) - Ari-Pekka is a sprint freestyler. In the heats of the men's 100m freestyle, he placed 46th overall with a 50.48. Ari-Pekka placed 26th in the men's 50m freestyle heats.

Erica Sullivan (USA) - ERICA SULLIVAN WON SILVER IN THE 1500M FREESTYLE BEHIND KATIE LEDECKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Markus Thormeyer (Canada) - Markus is a backstroker who also competed in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay, where Team Canada placed fourth. He placed 19th in the 100m backstroke and 16th in the 200m backstroke. Markus swam in the prelims and final of the men's 4x100m medley relay, placing 7th.

Taekwondo

Jack Woolley (Ireland) - Jack, who is bisexual, competed in the men's 58kg event. He lost to Lucas Guzman of Argentina in the Round of 16.

Tennis

Demi Schuurs (Netherlands) - Demi competes in women's doubles. She and her partner lost to the Russian Olympic Committee team in the second round in 3 sets.

Sam Stosur (Australia) - Sam and her tennis partner lost to the Swiss pair of Bencic/Golubic in the quarterfinal round of women's doubles.

Alison van Uytvanck (Belgium) - Alison competed in women's singles. She was eliminated from the tournament by Garbinye Muguruza of Spain in the third round.

Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) - Carla placed 17th in the women's singles tournament and 9th in women's doubles.

Track and Field

Michelle-Lee Ahye (Trinidad) - Michelle-Lee qualified 10th in the 100m and 8th in the semifinals, not earning a time or place qualification to the final. Her 4x100m relay team placed 15th in the heats of the relay.

Dutee Chand (India) - Dutee placed 45th in the 100m heats. She placed 38th in the 200m.

Ramsey Angela (Netherlands) - Ramsey won the silver medal in the men's 4x400m relay with his team! He also ran in the mixed 4x400m relay, where his team placed 4th.

Geisa Arcanjo (Brazil) - Geisa placed 30th in the qualification round for the women's shot put.

Raven Saunders (USA) - Raven won the silver in women's shot put!

Tom Bosworth (Britain) - Tom competed in the men's 20km race walk and placed 25th overall.

Erica Bougard (USA) - Erica placed 11th overall in the women's heptathlon.

Aoife Cooke (Ireland) - Aoife did not finish the marathon - it was very hot and humid!!

Izabela da Silva (Brazil) - Izabela placed 11th in the women's discus throw.

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (Canada) - Gabriela placed 5th in the women's 1500m.

Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela) - Yulimar placed 1st in qualifications for the women's triple jump. In the finals, she won gold AND set a world record!!!

Senni Salminen (Finland) - Senni just missed qualifying for the final in women's triple jump, placing 13th in qualifications.

Trampoline

Dominic Clarke (Australia) - Dominic placed 8th in men's trampoline after qualifying in 1st. It looks like he had a few misses in the final.

Volleyball

Ana Carolina da Silva (Brazil) - Team Brazil won the silver medal!

Carol Gattaz (Brazil)

Paola Egonu (Italy) - Team Italy is 3-2 in pool play. Italy was defeated by Serbia in the quarterfinals.

Douglas Souza (Brazil) - Team Brazil finished the tournament in 4th place.

Water Polo

Rowie Webster (Australia) - Team Australia ended the tournament in 5th place!

Weightlifting

Laurel Hubbard (New Zealand) - Laurel, a trans woman, will competed in the A final of the +87kg women's event and did not finish.

Wrestling

Kayla Miracle (USA) - Kayla will compete in the women's freestyle 62kg. Kalya lost her bout to Long Jia in the Round of 16.

Gymnastics

Caitlin Rooskrantz (South Africa) - In qualifying, Caitlin placed 61st individually.

BMX Racing

Elke Vanhoof (Belgium) - Elke competes in women's BMX Racing. She placed 6th in semifinals and did not advance.

Archery

Lucilla Boari (Italy) - Lucilla won a bronze medal in the women's individual event and placed 7th in the women's team.

Table Tennis

Caroline Kumahara (Brazil) - Caroline placed 9th in the women's team event.

Beach Volleyball

Ana Patricia Silva Ramos (Brazil) - Ana Patricia and her beach volleyball partner Rebecca Cavalcanti were eliminated by the Swiss pair in the quarterfinal round of the women's tournament.

Please let me know if you notice an error here! Send me an ask or a DM. Please be kind, this was a lot of work and I'm sure I made an error somewhere.

#tokyo2020 #lgbtq+#queer sports #please reblog lol #this was a lot of work #and i will keep updating it as the Olympics go on!#that's why it's under a cut.#updated through the end of the olympics #:(((((

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misslacito · 5 years

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leticiaaemocionada · 3 years

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Se eu fosse lésbica

Mais ou menos aos sete anos de idade eu soltei, num almoço em família, que era apaixonada pela Sandy.

- Minha filha, você tem que ser apaixonada pelo Júnior! – Minha tia rapidamente me corrigiu. Eu, desde sempre uma garota muito curiosa, muito questionadora, rebati.

- Ué, por quê?

- Porque meninas têm que se apaixonar por meninos e os meninos que têm que se apaixonar por meninas – heterossexualidade compulsória resumida em um diálogo, meninas!

- Mas e se eu não gostar de meninos?

- Tu não podes gostar de meninas, minha filha, senão você vai ser lésbica, isso não é certo. Olha só: teu pai e tua mãe, eu e teu tio, tua tia e o marido dela. Tu vês por aí duas mulheres se beijando? Se casando?

- Não – eu estava confusa. Só tinha dito que era apaixonada. Nunca tinha mencionado casamento!

- Então, é assim que a vida é: meninas gostam de meninos e meninas gostam de meninas.

Lésbica. Por que ser lésbica era tão ruim eu não sabia, mas fiquei morrendo de medo de ser isso. Com o tempo eu descobri que assim como meninos que se comportavam como meninas eram “viados”, “viadinhos”, as meninas que pareciam meninos eram “lésbicas” ou, pior: “sapatão”. Uma prima minha que nunca usava saias, vestidos e blusinhas coladas, só andava com meninos e falava mais parecido com meus primos do que com as outras primas, sempre que aparecia nas reuniões de família, me deixava absolutamente desconfortável.

Será que ela era lésbica? Será que era contagioso? Eu saía de perto. Evitava contato. Corria para o quarto onde minhas primas que só falavam de homens estavam. Ali o ambiente parecia não infectado com aquele negócio de lésbica. Ali eu me sentia segura.

Eu não era lésbica. Eu gostava de vestidos longos, maquiagem, princesas da Disney e, como uma delas, eu sonhava com meu príncipe encantado. Até gostava de um gordinho com cabelos lisos até os ombros na escola! Eu não era lésbica.

Eu só ficava vidrada na Sandy quando, às tardes na casa dos meus avós com minhas tias e primos, colocávamos os DVDs com videoclipes e shows pra dançarmos. Mudei o discurso de “sou apaixonada pela” para “quero ser a” Sandy. Contava pra minha tia, revoltada, que meu primo queria ser a Sandy que nem eu! Se eu não podia ser apaixonada pela Sandy e só me restava ser ela nas brincadeiras, eu não podia deixar que ele roubasse isso de mim! Naquele ponto eu já era apaixonada pelo Júnior. Era assim que tinha que ser. Mas se eu fosse lésbica... eu casava. Com a Sandy, claro. No primeiro dia, na beira da praia, com esse turo turo turo aqui dentro explodindo em mim.

Mas eu não era. Também não era quando minha obsessão foi RBD. Meus cards eram todos da Anahí. Os pôsteres que eu comprava tinham a cara dela, os cabelos loiros, olhos azuis, sainha rodada, estrelinha na testa e o jeitinho meigo que ela entregava aos fãs na novela e nos shows. Nas brincadeiras, era ela que eu queria ser. Na novela, Mia Colucci era minha personagem preferida. Minhas músicas preferidas eram as que ela cantava. Talvez eu fosse apaixonada pelo Poncho. Mas eu sabia que ela era taurina – sempre fazia um bolinho em seu aniversário – que tinha sofrido de anorexia e que dia 19 de abril de 2001 o coração dela tinha parado durante 8 segundos. Eu costumava dizer que, durante oito segundos, o mundo tinha perdido a cor. O poema antes de Salvame eu sabia de cor – aliás, eu SEI de cor. Sabia os nomes de todos os namorados, odiava a maior parte deles por eles serem feios e ela, poxa, tão bonita, desperdiçando tanta beleza...

Em uma das crises de solidão, em meio a todo bullying sofrido dentro da escola, exclusão por parte das garotas da sala, brigas em casa – tanto entre meus pais quanto comigo –, quando pensei em desistir de mim, foi a ideia de nunca a conhecer que me segurou. Pode parecer besta, mas esse era o nível de paixão que a Letícia de 12 anos tinha por essa mulher. MAS EU QUERIA MESMO ERA CASAR COM O PONCHO, TÁ, TIA? Não lembro nem o aniversário dele, mas na hora de contar a todos quem eu gostaria que noivasse comigo, era ele quem eu mencionava.

Em 2009, no auge da Saga Crepúsculo, mudei o nickname do Twitter para @Lele_Greene porque eu achava Ashley Greene, a Alice Cullen, a coisa mais linda do mundo. No plano de fundo do meu perfil do twitter, eu tinha uma colagem com nove fotos da Kristen Stewart que o site repetia por toda a tela, o que me fazia ter mais de oitenta carinhas daquela mulher me encarando todas as vezes que eu entrava em minha conta e, por mais sinais que meu estranho comportamento me desse, eu era apaixonada pelo Robert Pattinson. Mas se eu fosse lésbica, eu dizia, eu pegava Kristen e Ashley. Juntas, de preferência. Como em algumas fanfictions que eu havia lido, onde as fãs mais ousadas as faziam largar tanto Jasper quanto Edward e viverem um romance apaixonado, cheio de dedos, línguas, mãos nos peitos umas das outras. Depois de uma noite de leituras como essas, eu passava a madrugada rezando, culpada, pra um Deus que, como haviam me ensinado na catequese, me odiaria se eu gostasse desse tipo de comportamento.

Se eu fosse lésbica, com toda certeza namoraria Scarlett Johansson, mas como não era, tinha crush no Chris Hemsworth. Natalia Dill, Aline Moraes, Bruna Linzmeyer, Marjorie Estiano, Isis Valverde, Maria Casadeval, Fernanda Souza, Megan Fox, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Emma Watson, Dakota Fanning, Amanda Seyfried, Thais Araújo, Rachel McAddams, todas elas mexiam comigo do jeito que minhas tias queriam que os homens que as acompanhavam nos trabalhos em que estavam envolvidas mexessem.

Se eu fosse lésbica, eu disse pro meu irmão, ficaria com a filha da prima da minha mãe que, por sinal, estava linda na festa de 15 anos de uma outra prima. Mas, como eu não era, torcia pra que ele ficasse. Se eu fosse lésbica, namoraria minha melhor amiga no ensino médio, mas me obriguei a gostar de outro garoto gordinho de cabelos longos que cruzava os corredores da escola. Se eu fosse lésbica, não teria me sujeitado a transar com um garoto que conheci no Facebook só pra provar que eu não era hétero, mas como não era, eu me sujeitei.

Quando eu me apaixonei por McFly, Panic! at the Disco e All Time Low, me agoniava o fato de que eles eram as únicas bandas que realmente me tocavam, sendo que eles só cantavam para mulheres! Se eu fosse lésbica, tudo bem, mas eu não era, então todas as vezes que eles cantavam para “ela”, em minha cabeça eu me forçava a cantar para “ele”. Gostar de boy bands que quase sempre falavam de amor e, sempre que o faziam, falavam para uma garota, transformou minha adolescência em

She He pulled on his her hand

With a devillish grin,

She He led him her upstairs,

She He led him her upstairs

Left him her dying to get in[1]

Esse processo era feito em todas as músicas de amor possíveis. Imagina que saco, ter que ficar se policiando ao cantá-las por causa de uma besteira?

Se tivessem me dito que “tudo bem gostar de meninas, contanto que seja recíproco”, eu não teria chorado durante meses à noite em minha cama porque minha melhor amiga me deixava nervosa todas as vezes que nos aproximávamos. Se eu não lesse sobre, assistisse filmes, séries, ouvisse músicas e vivesse no meio de casais heterossexuais, eu não passasse boa parte da minha adolescência me considerando uma aberração, uma pecadora, alguém que decepcionaria a família. Mas como eu nunca tive a oportunidade de assistir um filme em que Bella Swan e Alice Cullen se amassem, ler um livro ou encontrasse uma novela com uma história de amor entre duas mulheres sem que elas morressem no final – e que, não importa o que digam e quem o diga, quem está errado é qualquer pessoa que as façam se sentir mal com o que elas são, com o que elas sentem – me sinto quebrada. Existe um buraco na minha história, e ele me causa mais dores do que eu tenho consciência.

Se eu fosse lésbica, talvez eu estivesse mais calma. Talvez eu não quisesse invadir o meio artístico só pra falar de mulher, me infiltrando no meio de adolescentes que, como eu, estão fadadas a consumir amores heterossexuais, fazendo-as ler e assistir e ouvir que amar outra mulher é a coisa mais terrivelmente linda e absolutamente normal do mundo, que elas não são uma aberrações e que tudo bem estar apaixonada pela melhor amiga.

Mas essa sapatona tem raiva. Raiva de tudo o que passou, raiva das dores que deliberada e desnecessariamente foram jogadas na cara e nas costas dela. Raiva do pai, da tia, do tio, de pessoas na rua, do cinema, da TV, da escola, mas mais ainda de tudo o que os levou a me machucar do jeito que eles o fizeram – e ainda fazem. A diferença é que agora eu estou com a raiva nas mãos, sangue nos olhos, com uma vontade imensa de falar e, falando, conquistando e convencendo, mudando a merda de situação que eu e outras sapatinhas vivemos.

[1] Trecho da música Remembering Sunday – All Time Low.

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thesoftboileddetectivepodcast · 2 years

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Crew

Creator, Writer, Director, and Producer: Kat Walker Shea (She/Her)

Composer: Mike Formanski (He/Him)

Sound Designer: Silentbyte Studio

Season 1 Voice Cast

HBD (He/Him): BK Dawson (He/Him)

Tiffany Coffindaffer (She/Her): Kat Walker Shea (She/Her)

Hans Schmidt (He/Him): BK Dawson (He/Him)

Nova Sagittarii (They/Them): Socks Whitmore (They/Them)

Zylah Sagittarii (She/Her): Miche Arts / Tarra Ward (He/Him)

Francesca Du (She/Her): Jade Robinson (She/Her)

Caifei Xie (She/Her): Rachanee Lumayno (She/Her)

Jimmy the Chair (He/Him): Nathan Woltering (He/Him)

Pesci the Hot Plate (He/Him): Gondre Lewis (He/Him)

Dragon Head Erxin Du (She/Her): Lucia Xu (She/Her)

Bonfacio Sartini (He/Him): Gondre Lewis (He/Him)

Gilda Hayworth (She/Her): Vyn Vox (He/They)

Chad Coffindaffer (He/Him): Cory Koehler (He/Him)

Megan Coffindaffer (She/Her): Marnie Warner (She/Her)

Harriet Demetrius (She/Her): SarahJeen François (She/Her)

Magnolia Veil (He/They): Vyn Vox (He/They)

Marz Starbird (They/Them): Casper Oliver (They/Them)

Atland Rockford (He/Him): Tim Briggs (They/Them)

Dirge (He/Him): Socks Whitmore (They/Them)

LuÍs Tamayo Vásquez (He/Him): Jorge Luis Figueroa (He/Him)

Caridad (She/Her): Claudia Vecchi (She/Her)

Benito (He/Him): Samuel Fuentes (He/Him)

Gilberto (He/Him): Isaias Miranda (He/Him)

Joana (She/Her): Fernanda Haiabe (She/Her)

Richard (He/Him): Jeremy Griffith (He/Him)

Additional Voices: Adam Lloyd (He/Him), Kat Walker Shea (She/Her), Socks Whitmore (They/Them), and Casper Oliver (They/Them)

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surveyhoursss · 3 years

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138.

Do you know people with these names? For each name, say if you know someone with that name and how you know them.

Aaron: peer

Adam: peer

Aisha

Alanna

Alex

Alexa

Alexandria

Allegra

Allie: peer

Allison: cousin

Alondra

Amanda: roommate in res

Amber

Amie

Ana

Anaïs

Andreas

Andrew: peer

Angela: friend's girlfriend

Angelica: peer

Anna

Annie

Ari

Ashley: friend's little sister

Ashna

Audrey

Austin

Becky

Ben: peer

Berkeley

Beth: roommate in inpatient

Bobby: friend's ex

Bolor

Brendan

Bridgid

Britney

Brooke

Cal

Callie: peer

Cam: Family friend

Cameron: cousin

Camille

Camryn

Carmen

Caro

Caroline: peer; used to have our lockers next to each other all of middle school lol

Casilda

Cecile

Cecily

Chanel

Chloe: peer

Chris: grandmother

Christina:

Christopher: peer that used to frustrate me for no good reason ;w;

Claire: one of my besties

Claudia

Claudine

Cole

Connie

Connor

Courtney

Cyrus

Daisy

Dakota: peer

Dana

Danielle

David: we had chinese class together >:)

Delilah

Diane

Diego: brother's friend

Donald

Doug

Duncan

Dylan: Peer; we were pretty close as children

Eleanor: peer

Elijah

Elise

Eliza

Elizabeth: a childhood friend

Ella

Elle

Ellie

Elliot: my friends dog

Emerson: we went to php together

Emily: one of the besties

Emma: me

Eric

Erika: peer

Ethan: peer

Faith: peer

Fiona: my favorite cow at our zoo

Francesca

Franz

George

Ginny

Giselle

Grace: my best friend as a tiny tiny child

Graham

Hadley

Hailey

Hannah: peer

Havana

Helen: peer

Henry: friends brother

Hugo

Huma

Ilana

Indra

Isabel

Isabella: per

Itza

Ivy

Izzy

Jackie

Jacob: peer

James: friends brother

Jamie

Jason

Jennifer

Jenny

Jess

Jhadha

Joe: peer

John: father

Jonathan

Joseph: brother

Joyce

J.P.

Jude

Julia: aunt

Julie

Justin

Kaan

Kai

Karina

Kat

Kate: confirmation friend from when I was forced to go to church

Katherine: family friend

Kinaya

Kira

Kristie

Lanie

Laura

Lauren

Leah

León

Lexxi

Liberty

Lisette

Louisa

Luca

Luis

Lynette

MacKenzie: Friends sister

Maddie: One of the besties

Maggie: Peer

Makena

Manlio

Margaret

Margo: Peer from res

Maria

Marianna

Mariely

Martha

Martin

Mayuri

McKinley

Megan: peer from res

Meredith

Mia: peer

Michael: peer from elementary school

Michelle: peer

Mike: dads friend

Minah

Miranda

Molly: peer

Morgan

Nadia

Nancy

Natalie

Nathan: peer

Nathanael

Neoma

Nichole

Nico

Nikki

Noah

Noelle

Octavio

Olivia: peer

Orion

Owen

Paige

Pam

Pat

Patrick

Paul

Paula

Pauline

Peter: childhood friend

Phoebe: online friend

Phong: peer

Price

Quinn

Rachel

Rai

Railey

Raquel: girl I met at camp lol

Ray

Rayne

Rebecca: peer

Rebkah

Regina

Reilly

Remy: peer

Ren

Rhianna

Robert

Rohini

Roither

Rose: peer from res

Ruby

Ruilin

Sabrina: friend of a friend

Sakura

Salim

Sally: met at camp

Sam: moms friend

Sapna

Sarah

Savanah

Sebastian

Shani

Shannon

Siena

Snigdha

Sofia: peer

Sophie.

Soren

Spencer

Summers

Sydney: peer

Taran

Taylor: peer

Tessa

Thea

Theo

Theresa

Tim

Tom

Tori

Ural

Victoria: friend

Viviane

Walter

Will: brother

Willa

William

Yujin: friend

Yuta

Zac

Zoe: friend

Which names do you prefer?

Alice or Allana?

Allie or Andie?

Alexandra or Anastasia?

Anna or Angela?

Annie or Angelica?

Ana or Ashna?

Audrey or Ashley?

Ansel or Annika?

Brooke or Britney?

Berkeley or Bella?

Bo Chao or Beatrix?

Camille or Camryn?

Cristina or Casilda?

Chloe or Courtney?

Charlotte or Carol?

Cleo or Chanel?

Davin or Dillon?

Delilah or Dutra?

Erin or Elina?

Emin or Emerson?

Emily or Emma?

Erika or Estelle?

Faith or Frannie?

Fernanda or Francesca?

Georgina or Gracie?

Gabriela or Gina?

Hailey or Hannah?

Hadley or Havana?

Indra or Isabel?

Indiana or Ivy?

Jenny or Jessie?

Julia or Joyce?

Jasmine or Jackie?

Jamie or Jennifer?

Kimia or Karina?

Katerina or Kate?

Kira or Kristie?

Lia or Lily?

Lauren or Lynette?

Liberty or Leila?

Margaret or Martha?

Michelle or Mackenzie?

Mia or Michaela?

Morgan or Maddie?

Maya or Mayuri?

Megan or Makena?

McKinley or Margo?

Nikki or Natalie?

Nadia or Nancy?

Nicole or Olivia?

Rachel or Rebecca?

Remi or Rosie?

Ruby or Reine?

Ren or Sakura?

Sapna or Snigdha?

Sally or Stella?

Sophie or Sydney?

Sophia or Solana?

Skye or Sierra?

Serena or Savanah?

Sarah or Sabrina?

Tara or Taylor?

Vittoria or Yahs?

Yoonju or Yukine?

Aidan or Austin?

Alan or Andrew?

Aldo or Alexx?

Ben or Brian?

Billy or Brodie?

Corey or Carlos?

Coleman or Connor?

David or Dylan?

Eli or Eric?

Franz or Fernando?

Gabe or Graham?

Holden or Hudson?

Jacob or Justin?

Jack or JP?

Jimmy or Jared?

James or John?

Karm or Kian?

Lou or Lenny?

Michael or Mickey?

Nick or Nathan?

Peter or Pierson?

Rai or Rafael?

Sanjay or Supawat?

Will or Wynn?

Zachary or Zack?

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