got my shawl from @kohanakonohana!! its absolutely beautiful I couldn’t be more happy with it!! I love the color gradient from white to blue and it feels and looks so so so nice to wear.
also came with care instructions I am Immensely grateful for(don’t want to ruin something thats had this much work put into it!) and the j-san postcards!! theyre incredibly cute thank you for them :3.
We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and they’re already trying to purge us from libraries.
If other people are interested I’ll make this a priority
Speaking as someone with a background in archives, stuff like this does already exist. No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating an archive and making sure it’s accessible and searchable and actually preserves things for the long time (especially digital things) is actually a huge undertaking. Show some love to these already existing collections and maybe even consider contributing. There’s the Digital Transgender Archive off the top of my head. I know more I just have to think.
The History Project, based in Boston, is an LGBTQ+ community archive that’s existed for decades. Many of their collections are digitized.
I’d also recommend searching “lgbtq+” and “libguide” in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.
Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where you’re writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.
In general, I’d really recommend searching around to see how you can support existing museums, community archives, college and university archives, etc that specialize in LGBTQ+ history and media local to you, whether that’s in your same town or regionally.
You are not alone! People are working on this and some of them have institutional budgets!
But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests you’ve been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. That’s all part of queer history and that’s the stuff these archives and museums are made of.
Label your stuff carefully, make backup copies, and get to know your local organizations!
Meet the sawtooth eel, Serrivomer sp. These brilliant eels can be found up to 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) deep and measure up to 78 centimeters (2.5 feet) in length. They migrate toward the surface of the ocean each night to feed on small fishes, shrimps, and other crustaceans.
They are part of the largest mass migration on Earth. Each evening, throughout the ocean, multitudes of animals leave the deep, dark waters they inhabit during the day and swim up to the food-rich, nighttime waters near the surface. Each morning, they descend back down to the depths. These animals migrate in order to remain constantly in darkness, to avoid being eaten by visually cued predators. Learn more about MBARI’s vertical migration studies on our website.
Honestly one of the most overlooked and under appreciated phenomena in marine biology. There’s things doing this every night that are absolutely nothing like any daytime sea creature. Nautiluses do this and are the last of the ancient shelled mollusks. Tiny glow in the dark cookie cutter sharks come up to the surface every night to take bites out of everything that moves with their ice cream scoop teeth. To ocean fish, the sun goes down and all the goblins and demons come up out of the shadow dimension to wreak havoc but when you’re a little fish in the open sea you don’t have a house to hide in. You just have to deal with it.
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