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[eyes 1930s germany nervously]
Apr. 13th, 2025 08:32 pmhahaha. what a world we live in.
recently read a book called the most dazzling girl in berlin by kip wilson. this is about a young queer woman in, you guessed it, 1930s berlin--like, early 1930s--who gets pulled into the lesbian club scene there at that time and falls for a jewish woman and runs away to paris at the end. it's free-verse poetry and therefore an extremely quick read. didn't realize it was poetry when i picked it up but weirdly it works? (although, sidenote, i've been experimenting with writing poetry lately and part of that has been learning the rules of sonnets and villanelles and things like that which has been genuinely sort of interesting).
and so tangentially related to that, world politics,
honestly? part of me really wanted to write this introspective rant about what it means to be very much from a place that is also objectively very bad. or talk about how a couple of international students i know have been REALLY worried about getting deported recently. or about how if it weren't for money or passport nonsense or my entire community being here in my city there is a big part of me that wants to just run away for somewhere less... bullying. but i don't have the words for it right now. the world is just tiring and i want things to stop being on fire.
recently read a book called the most dazzling girl in berlin by kip wilson. this is about a young queer woman in, you guessed it, 1930s berlin--like, early 1930s--who gets pulled into the lesbian club scene there at that time and falls for a jewish woman and runs away to paris at the end. it's free-verse poetry and therefore an extremely quick read. didn't realize it was poetry when i picked it up but weirdly it works? (although, sidenote, i've been experimenting with writing poetry lately and part of that has been learning the rules of sonnets and villanelles and things like that which has been genuinely sort of interesting).
and so tangentially related to that, world politics,
honestly? part of me really wanted to write this introspective rant about what it means to be very much from a place that is also objectively very bad. or talk about how a couple of international students i know have been REALLY worried about getting deported recently. or about how if it weren't for money or passport nonsense or my entire community being here in my city there is a big part of me that wants to just run away for somewhere less... bullying. but i don't have the words for it right now. the world is just tiring and i want things to stop being on fire.
