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It's that time of the week again: Thursday Recs!

In honor of me getting the Covid booster/flu shot double-jab today, this week I'm recommending vaccines.

Communicable disease has had a huge impact on the Queer Community, not least because of HIV and AIDS. Medical science has come a long way since that disease first emerged on the scene, and we now have some amazing treatments, including PEP, PrEP, and even news of actual cured individuals. There's even a very promising vaccine in the works! Which brings us back to my rec.

Vaccines are incredibly important medical science. They teach your body how to recognize and fight off diseases before you actually get the disease. Some of them can even do it when you get the disease! Perhaps more importantly, though, they can help you protect other people. If you can't catch a communicable illness, it won't be able to jump from you to someone who is more vulnerable to it. That's why, if you can get vaccinated, please do so at your earliest convenience. (Special note for the northern hemispherites, flu season is supposed to be absolutely brutal this year.)

To find out more about vaccines and how to talk to people about them, visit Immunize.org.


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
soc_puppet: The original Gilbert Baker pride flag merged with the Philly pride flag, rotated ninety degrees, and ending in the Queer pride chevron at the bottom (Mod Hat)
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Hello again, everyone! This is just a reminder that all the winners for Queerly Beloved's first giveaway have been drawn; I'm pretty sure I've heard back from everyone by now, and made sure everyone has gotten their prizes, but I'll admit I may have lost track a bit on the Knit One, Girl Two giveaway, what with one thing and another. If you entered the K1G2 giveaway and haven't gotten a copy yet, please check your Dreamwidth inbox! There may be a message from me waiting for you there.

Speaking of Knit One, Girl Two, some of you may already know this, but Clara the yarn dyer from the story was inspired by a real person: Caitlin of String Theory Colorworks. If reading the story has given you any urge to do yarncraft, be sure to check out the store! Special mention goes to the Myosotis, in light blue, pink, and white matching the Trans Pride flag.

On a related note, NerdyKeppie is currently running a "Tops and Bottoms" sale to offset some recent medical expenses. The purchase of any qualifying "bottoms" (skirts, leggings, sneakers, or boots) gets the buyer a free unisex heavy cotton t-shirt! (Good through July 6th, does not stack with other offers, no coupon needed.) I'm sure everyone here has already drooled over the collection of really awesome stuff at NerdyKeppie, and it would be completely unnecessary of me to mention that they just got messenger bags added to their available inventory.

Final note, if you ended up getting any of the books, either as a prize or decided to get it yourself now that you know it exists, something really neat to do would be to leave a review of them at Amazon and/or Goodreads. It's the sort of thing that can really help an author out materially; hitting a certain number of reviews on Amazon, even just star ratings, can make a story eligible to be advertised elsewhere on the site, such as in "also-bought" sections. And if you like what you read, the authors featured in this giveaway also have other cool stories to check out!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered the giveaway, and I truly hope to do more of them in the future.
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I'm still working on my post about how "Queer" and "Disabled" intersect and influence each other for me, personally. But this film, written, narrated and performed by Cheryl Marie Wade (1948-2013), is one of the best demonstrations of how the struggles of the queers and the cripples reflect each other, within the culture overall.

All the trigger warnings in the tags are for the fact that the rap is about the history of disabled people and our struggles, so they all come up. But the overall tone is triumphant. And there are swear words It has open captions in English.

soc_puppet: The original Gilbert Baker pride flag merged with the Philly pride flag, rotated ninety degrees, and ending in the Queer pride chevron at the bottom (Queerly Beloved)
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Phew, okay! I've got our community tags up. Or, well, as many as I can think of, at any rate. I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, and fandom tags in particular I'll have to add as we go.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to look over the tag list and request that I add something to it, especially if it's something I missed. This was just everything I could come up with off the top of my head, and while it covers a lot of stuff, I know I'm not perfect and didn't think of everything or everyone. Please also let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes or typos; I'm still not entirely used to the keyboard on my new laptop, which will account for some slipups, but definitely not all of them.

Let's see here, what else. Oh! CW is short for Content Warning, and warns for types of content that people might not want to deal with or, in the case of NSFW (literally: Not Safe For Work), is the type of thing they might get in trouble for having a record of on a work computer. Media is for reviews and shoutouts about various forms of media that have representation of us, good and bad. Everything else should be fairly self-explanatory, I think.

Since Dreamwidth has a tag limit of 1000 for free accounts (1500 for paid, 2000 for premium paid), there may come a time when I have to combine some lesser-used tags in order to preserve some more-used tags. We've still got close to 900 tags to go before reaching the free account limit, though, so I'm pretty sure we'll be okay for a while.

Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and if you have any feedback, I would be very interested in it!

Edit: It looks like I have tags hidden somehow at the moment? Lemme go take a look around, see how I need to fix that.

Edit 2: Apparently all unused tags were marked as "private" in the tag management thing. There's probably a better way to fix that, but it's late and I'm tired, so my current workaround is: Literally tag this post with every single tag available. (For the record, I tried doing that and then untagging everything, but the tags went right back to being private, so that shortcut is a no-go.)

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