Ernie Nelson > Recent Status Updates

I’m learning so much and it’s reminding me how sacred my queerness really is ❤️

So far this collection of stories has been sooo good. "Infect your friends and loved ones" and "The Chaser" were both phenomenal. This is really making me want to read her other book Detransition, Baby.

"I was beautiful and it hurt him. I doubt he ever complimented his wife that way. His wife did not possess the kind of beauty that triggered a desire that made him disgusted with himself. My kind of beauty does not trace a path to stable relationships, a dining room set from Crate & Barrel, a Thanksgiving turkey with his folks. He had no conception of what do with my beauty other than choke on it."

This book is doing a lot of things at once; both questioning and challenging the role of colonialism and heteropatriarchy in nature/science.

“Ultimately, queerness invites us all, regardless of our identities, to be more undefined, unclear, transitional, merging, interdependent, cooperative, and nonhierarchical—a very fungal way of being.”

"While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension–seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence.” I love love love this idea that true love, or a soul connection is about loving someone in transition, or being changed by them, which is it's own transition.

bell hooks' beautifully written book is reaffirming for me how important a love ethic is for me to truly live in alignment with my values. Love is a cultural issue, it's a political issue, it's a class/wealth issue, it's a spiritual issue. But love is not some complex, undefinable thing that can't be held or named. "When we are loving we openly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust."

Literally tragedy after tragedy for these characters. But boy, a good sob is hard to come by.

Also, yikes, the lengths that Norma's family go to keep her real family a secret is so awful. I'm excited for the reveal and the fallout.

It's actually insane that this was written 33 years ago because damnnnn this book is really getting into nuances about genderqueerness. Also crazy work to literally leave the love of your life because they want to go on hormones.

the police brutality and violence in this book is yikes but i feel like it’s necessary to convey the oppression. i’m listening to a bootleg audiobook and i love the bird sounds in the background.

This book is weird af but the prose is so freakin good I can’t stop listening to the audiobook.

wow, I did not think I would be this into that this book

desperately trying to read this book faster than i can watch it

I literally cry every time I listen to this damn book.

The audiobook version of this has a narrator whose voice is just lovely. This book reminds me of colgate a lot.

I fear i’m eating this up. ⛄️❤️🌲

I’ve been reading this book for ages. I think I need to give it a break and come back to it.

this damn children’s book making me cry

“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.” Girly pop is manic af tryna make life. Been there tbh.