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I love how Frantzen goes from "Foucault missed a lot in The History of Sexuality when it comes to the medieval era" (true) to "so all of queer theory is stupid and invalid and also they probably said something mean to me". I don't even care. I usually like academic pettiness, but this has been going on for 21 pages! I'm not out of the fucking intro yet. Do your own work instead of bitching at everyone else. Jesus fuck.

It's probably not a good sign when I'm irritated with the author before even leaving the introduction.
More soon.

The faggots act out their fantasies without beieving them to be real. The men act out their fantasies always proclaiming that they are real. . . . The men's fantasies are about control and domination and winning. The faggots move towards the limits of living in the body for they have known body ecstasy and want to live there with everyone always.

Joshua Gramson, professor and biographer, pens the perfect story of one of the most acclaimed disco divas of the free world. From his modest beginnings in 1950s Watts, to his meteoric rise as a performer headlining San Fran's Filmore theater troop, The Cockettes, later becoming a bandleader of his own rock group, and chanteuse at favorite SF haunts, Sylvester James life is chronicled with spirit and intelligence. A+

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A horrifying telling of the how gay men and others with HIV/Aids were treated throughout the 80s and 90s. There is controversy around the exageration of how many men Coker supported and buried but even if she reached half the men she says she did, that is a feat that not many people can say they did. In her writing, I was fanscinated by the theme of power and contacts and how often these cropped up when trying to support dying people.

400 out of 119,700 stitches 🪡
38 out of 90 colors 🎨
10.5 hours of work out of -
who knows how many total hours/years it will be 😂

Really good audiobook accompaniment! (Tagged)

#audiocrossstitch #audiostitching #crossstitch #strawberrythief #audiobook

This is a weird DNF for me, because I did enjoy most of what I read. The beginning was tongue in cheek, yet informative. Near midway, it‘s like the intellectual caps were put on, and it became textbook and dry. The ‘bad‘ is also not quite as bad as I was hoping. Some of the people were so ambiguously bad that I didn‘t really even know why I was reading about them. I wanted some extremes. If you‘re gonna do dry, give me the hardcore.

⭐️.5 stars