#reeeead it

I went a event called Zine Fest L.A and it was amazing. There was a table with a woman (Nia King) sitting at it with a pile of copies of her book, which I recognized from the internet. I didn’t even know much about it aside from that it was about queer and trans artists so I immediately bought it. Gotta support my queer peeps. I now have read it and it was honestly just amazing, I’m so happy I read it for so many different reasons. There is a wide variety of people telling their very different stories but they also were similar in a lot of ways, and a lot of their views and opinions overlapped in a great way. I think if you’re interested in queer things, art or writing or all three, then this will be a very nice read for you! I’m now going to go on a little bit so if you want to go in knowing nothing then go get it!!

I’m so happy I bought this, you have no idea. It’s just so interesting because I’ve been really interested in writing and art, though I’m not very sure I’m great at either, and these interviews really made me just want to create!!!! It made me want to be super queer and more involved in activism, specifically in creating things for qpoc. Another thing that is interesting is that these interviews took place over a podcast!! And podcasting is something I’ve been seriously considering doing, specifically one thats focus is queer peeps. It wouldn’t be as big as Nia’s, and I wouldn’t be aiming to interview artists but I’d like to do something kinda similar. The timing is just a sign, and these have made me want to try and podcast even more. That would be a lot of work so maybe one day!!!

I really enjoyed all of the interviews, I’m really happy there was a lot of trans voices being heard, specifically trans people of color. Those were very interesting. I also really was interested in the latinx queer guys stories, seeing as thats very much my life.  I definitely need to check out some of these peoples work, and now I really want to read Janet Mocks book because she’s the only person I’ve heard of before reading this and I know she’s gotten very well known and her story is just really interesting. I just want to read a lot more queer and queer poc memoirs now haha.