Curious Relics

When you don’t get the attention you want

Lady-Lovin’ Ladies of Color from A-Z

My first A-Z post was pretty popular so I thought I’d do a bonus round with all women of color!

A: America by Gabby Rivera

B: Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

C: Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

D: Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

E: Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

F: Final Draft by Riley Redgate

G: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

H: Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

I: I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

J: Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

K: Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell

L: Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

M: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

N: Not Vanishing by Chrystos

O: Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

P: Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill

Q: Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba

R: Red Azalea by Anchee Min

S: Skim by Mariko Tamaki

T: Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

U: Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember

V: Vanished by E.E. Cooper

W: Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

X: Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz

Y: Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory, coming to PC and consoles in 2019 from developers Black Shamrock and Cyanide Studio and publisher Bigben Interactive.

So, I’ve been thinking about this and I know what my most favorite instance of wonderfully translated pun is: it is the gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide one, from Good Omens.

I’ve read three different fan translations of Good Omens in Russian (when it was published officially I picked it up in a library specifically to look up how had they translated this phrase) and some of them were better and some of them were worse but all of them were centered on the fact that in russian language word blue can mean both color and ‘a gay man’. My favorite vertion of this phrase was something like bluer than the sky on a booklet advertising a tropical island vacation, and others were some kind of generic like a sky in the spring or something.