Kate Armstrong

@brainchain.ca

On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. From Tkaronto. She/her. Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.

A stunningly brilliant book, one of my favourite recent fantasy books. There are very few queer people on earth who don't, in dark moments, wonder what life would be like if they'd been a bit more brave or, on the other side, a bit less reckless. This book distills that ache to its essence.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

A paperback of Kai Ashante Wilson's A TASTE OF HONEY in front of summer hydrangeas. The book is flanked by a statuette of big cat (ambiguously read as a leopard or cheetah) and a highball with a pale yellow drink.

I’m glad that the @goodlawproject.org is launching a legal challenge against the EHRC’s new Code of Practice, which is dangerous, unworkable and has been opposed by a quarter of all MPs. The Code will discriminate against trans people and subject many others to gender policing based on stereotypes.

Pro-trans groups challenge EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces as rules come into force

Good Law Project’s trans rights lead, Jess O’Thomson, criticised the government’s approach, calling the code of practice “transphobic”.

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I've made greengage curd to go into a meringue pie! Other greengage ideas: chili courgette and gage salsa greengage chiffon pie greengage hand pies Friday's column has a suggestion for using gages in a sandwich.

a closeup photo of pale yellow thick curd. A chunky short sky-blue silicon spoon is stirring it

If I was to be asked what painting at the AGO makes you really emotional… it would be this one. Alex Janvier’s ‘Smile Shooter’. He was so talented and I wish he could have lived forever.

A photo of a painting with a beige ground with swirls of blue purple yellow and green on a white wall. It was completed in 1994

When I am dying, let me know .... That I loved all lovely things That I loved with all my strength, To my soul's full depth and length, Careless if my heart must break, That I sang as children sing Fitting tunes to everything, Loving life for its own sake. - Sara Teasdale #Poetry 💙📚👀

A Prayer

When I am dying, let me know That I loved the blowing snow Although it stung like whips; That I loved all lovely things And I tried to take their stings With gay unembittered lips; That I loved with all my strength, To my soul's full depth and length, Careless if my heart must break, That I sang as children sing Fitting tunes to everything, Loving life for its own sake.

"The stork they rode flew high and fast over swift-unfolding brown and gray November landscapes, but still perhaps Somehow within other borders, for Lilac naked on her back felt neither warm nor cold."

A photo of a copy of the 2015 Gollancz edition of Little, Big by John Crowley. The cover art is by Lauren Mortimer.