Joanie's Post Post Feminist Phase

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Owner occupied houses good. Owner occupied apartments bad. Corporate owned rental houses THE WORST. Corporate owned apartments meh.

The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:

H. L. Mencken's Gun:
Why do I even bother talking with you people about Chekhov? It's obvious the common American is as dumb as mud and trying to explain Russian theatre to him is like trying to explain philosophy to a Gorilla.

David Sedaris' Gun:
To be honest, I never actually reached a second act in Chekhov play. I always tune out halfway through the first. They keep telling me it's brilliant and I keep looking for way to sneak out without the actors noticing.

Rob Liefeld's Gun:
You expect me to wait for the next act??? Fuck you. I'm firing the gun now! also, the gun is two dozen guns. each the size of a man. a big man. a bigger man. A BIGGEST MAN.

David Foster Wallace's Gun:
If in the first act you have hung a gun* on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.**

* Though what do we mean by the word 'gun?'
** Firing the gun is the cliché way to finish such stories, but there is a reason we keep coming back for such endings

a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt . Alt: a young child is sitting in a Dr office with their head thrown back and mouth open before they lean forward and scream

This is me inside all day and it isn't even all that related to, you know, global events or anything

Also as someone who has "Three Chords & The Truth" branded onto her soul, details like what drink someone orders from a bar or what type of shirt they're wearing can speak volumes abt their character. The best minimalist writers include many details and let the brevity add significance.

Jesus on there being 2 genders: “For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” - Matthew 19:12

oh what next i stop calling my pussy julius squeezer?

Total Recall remake with a Cara Cunningham cameo when?

OK I'll choose to believe that her tits are horribly lopsided and mismatched just to preserve my self esteem thanks.

Oh jeez the worst part is that she's got better tits than me...

"Wait is that how we got Blair White?"
*one search later*
"Oh no this is so much worse. She had a porn career? What?"

Yeah my Bluesky experience has been much worse in the last few weeks cause I keep making the mistake of posting about things people are familiar enough with to have bad takes about instead of sticking to my Doonesbury & Springsteen gimmicks where people will just be quietly pleased to see it.

I am such a traditional woman that I wear corsets on a daily basis. On the occasions that I have to wear bras they feel like weird kink shit and I yearn for the traditional femininity of corsetry.

Tired: Woke Transgenderism was invented in 2015 to destroy traditional gender norms
Wired: The 1960s and 70s destroyed traditional gender norms and the attempts to reconstruct them were too poorly conceived to do anything but confuse.

But ykno I'm also the bitch who had to do a shitton of research abt the shifts in gender norms during the 1880s-1950s to understand my womanhood despite having already spent 7 years living as a woman, so clearly I don't understand modern gender constructs well enough to translate this shit.

Its extra weird for me cause I get REALLY vocal abt the importance Warhol's Factory scene had for that generation of queer ppl and the generation immediately after, but I don't actually like very much of Reed's work outside Coney Island Baby. Gotta honor my mama tho.

search for "mango implies the existence of womancome" yields no results

seriously? step up your shitposting game, folks.

Nah thanks for giving me an opportunity to be a pissy old queen. I don't get to do it as often as I used to, but its the only good thing I ever got from my mom.

We're talking abt a time where allegedly cis men would go up to the Catskills to spend a week in a Crossdressing Safe Space, a time when the Transvestite/Transsexual divide was an ingroup distinction and many self identified Transvestites also ID'd as men. Shit's messy as fuck.

Look if you can't see what a remaster collection including "Berlin" and "Caroline Says" titled "NYC Man" says abt the gender subversion that was SO pervasive in 60s and 70s New York idk what to tell you. Lou was a man by the very loose and flexible definition his time had, but enby by our standards.

The replies on this are simultaneously maddening and reminding me just how many ppl were not in the queer community when we had that big intergenerational fight over "Walk On The Wild Side" in 2017. If you want Queer Elders you gotta engage with their baggage and it will be uncomfortable.

Thank you for providing another publication on this. "Lou Reed had a complicated relationship with gender that he never quite found peace with" is not a hot take but rather a basic premise of the majority of writing about him and his work.

There's a great sitcom to be made abt a family of white collar normies moving to a suburb where the HOA is really quirky and irreverant. Karen-ass mom talking abt grass length while the established order is debating what the minimum amount of gore should be for Halloween decorations.

my friend's kid is an archaeology major. i asked him how he was enjoying college and he said he really digs it.

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders