Birththey Suit

can braid my hairs again

Print and poem (both my own) for the May edition of Blackbird Monthly, a publication by a local community college.

dressed up for the first time in months to go zoom with a couple friends last night

got a nerd shirt

Zazu Nova (194? - ) sex worker, convict.

Zazu hustled in lower Manhatten in the late 1960s, sometimes in female drag. She advertised herself as the ‘Queen of Sex’.

She was from upstate New York, and a staunch Unitarian. She had a violent temper and had been in prison more than once. It was rumored that she had done time for murder. She often carried a large chain in her purse for self-defense.

She was in the frontline at the Stonewall riots in 1969 alongside Marsha Johnson .

David Carter. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked The Gay Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press . 2004: 64-5, 162, 261, 298n11.

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Zazu Nova (194? - ) sex worker, convict.

Zazu hustled in lower Manhatten in the late 1960s, sometimes in female drag. She advertised herself as the ‘Queen of Sex’. She was fro

*finger guns into your ask box*

👉👉 (i almost never see asks! send me messages instead 😅😧)

👧🏼

Bibi Zogbé (Labibé Zogbé, Lebanese artist known as the painter of flowers, emigrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen, 1890-1973). Oil on canvas.

"Quartersquare 2" 2012

New cards for graduation season! And my new stamp design.

Acrylic on old reader-page. (Stamp: Dick Blick Wonder-Cut)