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( • ༝ • ) Nonbinary dyke, lover of all things creative. ౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹ books, crafts, & art 📍Philly
@queerbooksphilly Organizer 🍒
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And what if I soft launched a return to content creation? I have been so wonderfully creative away from my phone—from writing to junk journaling, clay workshops etc.

I kind of miss yapping online about the things I like and taking pretty photos or making silly videos just for the hell of it.

I’ve been paid for my content. I’ve reached the coveted 10k (TikTok which I am not on anymore). I truly DGAF about any of that. I just want to do, to make, to share with no requirements and no forced niche.

🍒 I’m excited to share, just cause. I don’t even know how hashtags work on here anymore…

Current Favorites for my brain & body:
Pink & Red Polka Dot @nike air rifts
Sapphic Vampire book by @veschwab
My @nothing headphones
The @byoma lip peptide lip oil
+++ this song 🔥 Bookstagram, books, reading, currently reading, TBR, book recommendations. Books rec, sapphic books, ve Schwab. Vampire books, books to read, book blogger by @selfbybee

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🔵Exciting announcement!🔵 Please join us on Saturday, October 24th at 12:30 pm for the panel discussion "What Power Does an Image Hold?" as part of the @collectivefutures.info symposium "Parallel Play" in person at Asian Arts Initiative!
🔵 Panelists: Beandrea July @beandreadotcom / Bee Knight @selfbybee / Preetika Rajgariah @prajgariah / Sarah Mueller @sarahcinephile / Stephanie Bursese @stephaniebursese , and Stephanye Watts @bereelblackcinemaclub
👥 Free to attend and open to all! Registration link in @collectivefutures.info bio
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This interactive panel features an experimental structure that includes a live presentation, artist-to-artist conversation, and intimate dialogue with the audience. Our discussion will explore the power dynamics images embody—specifically in visual art and media (film, photography, painting, etc.)—that raise questions about labor in the arts, disrupt systems of value, and lift individual stories that lack representation. Featuring perspectives from visual artists (currently or formerly members of artist collectives and/or collaboratively built spaces), cultural organizers (individuals whose practice is defined by creating social experiences to uplift a community), and curators (individuals whose practice is defined by working directly with filmmakers to present stories that resonate with their audiences and build movements)—this group sees collective visioning and collaborative storytelling as foundational to their practice. Topics to be explored include unlearning harmful practices around cost and time, weaving and nourishing interdependent ecosystems in Philadelphia and beyond, community care and solidarity under capitalism.

Hope to see you there! taken in Asian Arts Initiative by @selfbybee

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4 days ago

Keeping it as spoiler free as I can but what a day!!! It is always the honor of a life time being a part of my friends very special moments.

We laughed, we drank, and were so merry and now MARRIED! congratulations and endless love to @sarahcinephile and @chr1s_acr33 by @selfbybee

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7 days ago

International Lesbian Day. I love being a lesbian in sexuality and gender. I love being a femme themme. I love studs, butches, mascs, trans lesbians and nonbinary lesbians. Let’s go Lesbians. by @selfbybee

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9 days ago

I got some new mental health diagnostic news this week and instead of being scary it’s just super affirming.

I’ve built a life that feels the polar opposite of how I grew up and that realization has been huge.

If you asked my family they would say there’s a lot of love and safety to go around—and maybe so by their definition. But to me love isn’t present where abuse, enabling, and violence live. Love is the antithesis to all of those things.

I’ve built a life—a day to day—a community where none of those things are present. It’s not harmless, but it is apologetic, accountable, communicative and changing.

I’ve built that and a sense of stability on my own. So, of course I’m tired and of course and of course my brain 🧠 is special.

I’ve survived a heartbreaking September and knowing that all the healing work I’ve been doing will now have an extra support and I’m grateful for that.

Here’s to closing out the last months of this year experiencing ease by @selfbybee

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13 days ago

Shout out to my chronically ill kin trying to fight off the October slide like a mf (me too). by @selfbybee

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20 days ago

Some updates for #queerbooksphilly regarding us being quiet lately! by @selfbybee

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24 days ago

One small, sweet, and beautiful life—nourishing it daily with my very own hands.🍒

#junkjournaling #cozyaesthetic #travelersjournal by @selfbybee

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a month ago

Happy Gotcha (and subsequently) Birthday to the sassiest Virgo around. 11 years with my companion, my mini me, my kitty girl.

Having you for over a decade has filled me with so much love—unconditional. Whitley girl in a kitty world 😻

And yes she does know it’s her birthday I woke up singing “it’s a kitty girl in a birthday world” DUH by @selfbybee

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a month ago

This week in eldest daughter chronicles: having my own back and voicing my needs and desires has drained me so much that my agoraphobia has been triggered 👍🏽

We’ll bounce back though

I wanted kbbq @ home by @selfbybee

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a month ago

A lot of you are miserable because you don’t do arts and crafts! by @selfbybee

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a month ago

Absolutely using the debut of my new hair to bait you all into learning about the @voxpopuligallery PARTYYYYY FRIDAY 9/11 that you should join me at!

Tack on some early evening plans to kick off your weekend with a night hosted by @starfire_369 to support one of the few places in Philly that supports and uplifts individual artists and an artist collective.

Vox has been around for (almost) 40 years and if we want to see accessible work and art spaces continue to exist we must do our part! And how lucky that our part is showing up to DANCE & PARTY!

Grab your tickets now—can’t wait to see you there! by @selfbybee

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