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still in the introduction and i’m already cringing at how they only researched hetero relationships, but say some of the data will still apply to “gays and lesbians�� 💀 straight people need to do better

GAY PAIN ❤️‍��

i think i'll have scorpio rising by soccer mommy stuck in my head every day until i finish this!!

i'm excited for this, but cringing hard at one of the reviews that says the book is reverse racist because it doesn't have enough white people in it lmao

jomny sun as self care

this book keeps referring to the characters' hair as "straightened to perfection" but in my mind's eye they are 100% the curly girls on the cover!!!

lesbian pulp themes & girl pining over her ex girlfriend & dual timelines??!! i'm pumped for this!!

okay things are getting real gay now 🥰

i know it's early on in the book, but sadly i'm having trouble getting into this one. not sure if it's the confusing scifi settings or the elegant writing, but it makes my brain hurt 😭 i really want to love it!!

"Strong dark women you had to love with a strong dark heart that throbbed in gorgeous pain because love is terrible. I mean, ultimately. It would go away like a needle lifting from the vinyl at the end of the song, we knew this. The music would cease, one of us would die or else we'd just break up, and this drove us to drink from each other...

my digital library loan ended before i finished this 😭 hopefully dolly won't mind if i put her on hold for a few weeks.

“Learning to see and appreciate the presence of beauty is an act of resistance in a culture of domination that recognizes the production of a pervasive feeling of lack, both materially and spiritually, is a useful colonizing strategy.�� ~ from bell hooks�� essay “beauty laid bare��

i've long said that i need lily tomlin to be my cool lesbian grandma. i'm thinking maybe i need dolly to be my sweet southern auntie.

i was going to listen to this audiobook, but i got the ebook instead. and i'm really glad i did, now that i see there are timelines and footnotes and other extra goodies!!

is goodreads (web version) being slow af for anyone else? or is my computer just dying

"Capitalism! It was important to hate it, even though it was how you got money. Slowly, slowly, she found herself moving toward a position so philosophical even Jesus couldn't have held it: that she must hate capitalism while at the same time loving film montages set in department stores."

uhhh did we really just have a joke downplaying a guy’s discomfort with being sexually harassed? seriously? this book is a mess

this book is reminding me why i gravitate away from YA about teenage boys. seriously, why all the testicle references?? 😩

this book cover is such a lesbian cottagecore dream! i can't wait

"We cannot come to a proper sense of ourselves if there aren't others around to show us what we're like. 'A man can acquire anything in solitude except a character,' wrote Stendhal, suggesting that character has its genesis in the reactions of others to our words and actions. Our selves are fluid and require the contours provided by our neighbors....

this is so gritty and surreal, and i'm diggin it

“It may be a sign that two people have stopped loving one another (or at least stopped wishing to make the effort that constitutes 90 percent of love) when they are no longer able to spin differences into jokes. Humor lined the walls of irritation between our ideals and the reality: behind each joke there was a warning of difference, of disappointment even, but it was a difference that had been defused...��

just finished the major arcana, and on to the minor. i’m really enjoying studying this at a leisurely pace ��

yuki was just described as wearing an “oversize lesbian flannel�� and i’m weak

“‘Holy shit,�� Agnes breathes out. ‘It’s so romantic. I feel sick.’�� AMEN 😭✌️

my expectations are high but i’m so ready for this 🥺

uhh what’s up with the author’s use of colons in places where a comma or semicolon would fit?

there’s some brief but really nice and well-spoken ace / aro rep 🥺🖤

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i have NEVER been this absorbed in an audiobook before!!! 🤩