The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding—These chirps are gravitational waves converted to audible sounds. The faint thump matches the gravitational waves’ frequencies. The louder chirp is a higher frequency better suited to human ears. via The New York Times
a nap on a lilypad, hummingbirds guarding you. tiny stars appearing when you rub your sleepy eyes. you, being friends with your body. kissing someone while blue light kisses you too. handfuls of squished raspberries. strumming a guitar for the low hums, on a natural high. pink flip phone getting a romantic text. poem on a prescription. running your fingertips thru strawberry blonde hair. you blaze a trail of electric blue. picking flowers and keeping them in a basket. little red wagon following u home.
Me: [has a weird emotional reaction to smth]
Me: who did that
Personality: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Mental illnesses: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Medication: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The second issue of the Practical Handbook was all about queer readings so I made this non-fiction comic about reading Holmes as trans! It’s actually more of an introduction to the subject, ideally I’d like to turn it into a proper article some day, but it felt good to reflect on it and be able to have this in a publication as a valid reading. Researching critical material was emotionally draining since the very few published essays on the topic are incredibly transphobic and basically worthless, but that made me want to have my say even more. Many thanks to my good friends Mo and Elinor for helping me with the wording so as to make it accessible but to the point, and as always Katie for supporting my little transgender bum.
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